Patents by Inventor Nima Safari

Nima Safari has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230342418
    Abstract: Integrated circuit devices, methods, and circuitry for implementing and using a systolic array are provided. Such circuitry may include processing elements arranged in a triangular systolic array. The processing elements may receive an input matrix and perform Cholesky decomposition in a first stage, triangular matrix inversion in a second stage, and matrix multiplication in a third stage to produce an inverse of the input matrix as an output matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Tolga Ayhan, Mahshid Shahmohammadian, Kulwinder Singh Dhanoa, Nima Safari
  • Publication number: 20220216891
    Abstract: A signal processing device includes a filter, configured to receive first data representing a signal for wireless transmission, modify the first data in a filter operation, and output second data as the modified first data; a peak detector, configured to detect third data representing a peak of the signal, wherein the third data are a subset of the first data; a signal canceller, configured to receive the third data and to generate fourth data representing a cancellation signal corresponding to the peak of the signal; and a peak modifier, configured to receive the second data and the fourth data, and to generate fifth data using the second data and the fourth data, wherein the fifth data represent the signal with a modified peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Nima SAFARI, Richard MAIDEN
  • Patent number: 9762285
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms provide a technique for compression using an approximation of a mu-law algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Maiden, Nima Safari
  • Patent number: 9660624
    Abstract: Circuitry that efficiently implements loop functions in an integrated circuit is provided. The circuitry combines a feed-forward circuit with a feedback loop that includes a unit delay element in a feedback path. The feedback path may couple the output of a processing element to the input of the processing element. The processing element may implement a function that satisfies commutative, associative, and distributive properties. Combining the feedback loop with the feed-forward circuit may allow for register retiming in the feedback loop and for register pipelining with optional register retiming in the feed-forward circuit. The circuitry may thus trade off an increase in throughput and clock frequency for additional resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Nima Safari, Volker Mauer, Shahin Gheitanchi
  • Patent number: 9485129
    Abstract: Integrated circuits with wireless communications circuitry having peak cancelation circuitry operable to perform crest factor reduction is provided. The peak cancelation circuitry may receive at least first and second carrier waveforms and may include at least a first canceling pulse generator (CPG), a second CPG, a first peak detector for performing peak detection on the first waveform, a second peak detector for performing peak detection on the second waveform, a third peak detector for performing peak detection on a combined waveform of the first and second waveforms, and a pulse allocator that receives clipping information from the three peak detectors and that controls the amount of peak cancelation that is being performed by the two CPGs. The allocator may determine whether the combined waveform contains any peaks. In response to determining that the combined waveform does not contain any peaks, the CPGs may be configured in bypass mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Cope, Volker Mauer, Shahin Gheitanchi, Nima Safari
  • Patent number: 9467199
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms provide a technique for compression using an approximation of a mu-law algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Maiden, Nima Safari
  • Patent number: 9337782
    Abstract: Integrated circuits are provided with wireless communications circuitry having digital predistortion (DPD) circuitry, peak canceling circuitry, a power amplifier, and signal conditioning circuitry for controlling the DPD and peak canceling circuitry. The peak canceling circuitry may receive transmit signals and may clip peaks in the transmit signals that exceed a magnitude threshold value. The DPD circuitry may compensate for non-linear characteristics of the power amplifier by outputting a predistorted version of the clipped transmit signals. The power amplifier may receive the predistorted signals and may perform amplification to generate amplified signals. The signal conditioning circuitry may identify power transfer characteristics of the power amplifier and DPD circuitry using the predistorted signals and the amplified signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Volker Mauer, Nima Safari, Shahin Gheitanchi, Richard Maiden