John M Morelli, Age 78921 E Jefferson Blvd, Mishawaka, IN 46545

6438737, Aug 20, 2002

Feb 15, 2000

09/505059

John Morelli - South Bend IN
H. Richard Kendall - Mishawaka IN

Intel Corporation - Santa Clara CA

G06F 1750

716 16

A system is disclosed including a reconfigurable logic circuit having programmable logic, a first memory, and a second memory. The first memory stores a number of logic designs each operable to configure the programmable logic. Also included is a computer coupled to the reconfigurable logic circuit that concurrently executes one or more application programs and an interface program. The application programs generate a number of requests to utilize the reconfigurable logic circuit and the interface program responds to the requests by opening a number of coexisting program interfaces. These interfaces each correspond to an instance of one of the logic designs stored in the first memory. The reconfigurable logic circuit is responsive to the interface program to provide a number of interface buffers in the second memory that each belong to a corresponding one of the interfaces and are each operable to store data passing between the computer and the reconfigurable logic circuit.