Our Arithmetic Processing Algorithm (APA) allows us to use a single, small logic block [Reconfigurable Processing Unit (RPU)] as illustrated in the following figure, which is taken directly from one of our early patents. It is important to note that the RPU's silicon implementation is advantageously derived straight from the "workings of" our APA. Within the RPU all operations may be performed bit-by-bit (fine-grained DRL is thus achieved when necessary via software), beginning with the most significant bits of the operand and produce the resultant in the same manner, that is the Most Significant Digit (bit) First.

This logic operational process features:

• use of the most significant resultant bits in the next operation while the less significant bits are still being calculated in the initial operation. We call this benefit ultrascalar calculation.
• calculations of any operand may be terminated when any pre-specified degree of calculational precision is achieved. We call this benefit variable precision (independent developers claim a 37% improvement in total execution times using this feature alone) ¹. Variable precision enables the use of floating point operations with virtually the same cost, footprint and power consumption Si parameters as are used for fixed point operations.

The five principal market drivers which the Context DRL addresses are (1) maximum computational power at the highest computational silicon efficiency, (2) minimum power dissipation, i.e. minimize milliWatts consumed for the processing of all algorithms within the domain, (3) minimum area required, (4) maximum flexibility in order to reduce NRE and times-to-market and to best accommodate new "killer apps" and changing standards in the field and (5) maximum code densities so as to minimize memory requirements and reduce latencies. Coarse-grained, dynamically reconfigurable architectures have been shown in many applications/domains (across multiple algorithms) "to produce at least one order of magnitude in power reduction and increase in performance." ²

Our RPUs are coarse-grained dynamically reconfigurable and thereby enable dynamic context switching of their logic blocks in space and time, so that they operate in time-sharing, architecturally optimized states. To be most highly effective, DRL must (and Context DRL does!) have the ability to

• provide fast random access to co-located configuration [Target Architecture (TA) and Instruction Set Description (ISD)] memory.
• perform fast (preferably within four cycle counts), complete context switching.
• use a coarse-grained architecture to (a) avoid the reconfiguration overhead attendant to fine-grained architectures and (b) so that it is better suited for application implementation of computational tasks from a high-level programming language and/or similar sources.

Our tool development is outsourced to DSP Design Automation (DSP-DA), a fully owned subsidiary of Soft. Networks, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, whose principals include leading compiler experts, such as Dr. Vijay Madisetti, CEO of Soft. Networks and Professor, ECE, at Georgia Tech. These tools include the compiler, assembler, linker, profiler and debugger. The Context software simulator has already been developed and successfully applied in a major wireless benchmark competitive study.