INTEGRATED CIRCUIT HAVING A HARD CORE AND A SOFT CORE

摘要

An integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed. The integrated circuit includes a non-reconfigurable multi-threaded processor core that implements a pipeline having n ordered stages, wherein n is an integer greater than 1. The multi-threaded processor core implements a default instruction set. The integrated circuit also includes reconfigurable hardware that implements n discrete pipeline stages of a reconfigurable execution unit. The n discrete pipeline stages of the reconfigurable execution unit are pipeline stages of the pipeline that is implemented by the multi-threaded processor core.