Elixent, a UK-based start-up based on work done at HP's Bristol Labs over several years, aims to bring reconfigurable-IP (intellectual-property) blocks to ASIC design. The company based the ...

The ALU takes in two sets of data, performs a chosen math function, and outputs one data set as the result. It really is the core of what makes computers compute.

For control functions, each logic cell contains multiplexers so that the 4bit ALU can act as a wide-input logic functions such as a 12-input OR or AND gate. The need to support control logic has not ...