Patents by Inventor Tom Shui

Tom Shui 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).

  • Patent number: 10977018
    Abstract: Implementing an application within a heterogeneous device can include receiving an application specifying a plurality of hardware accelerators and having a plurality of sections corresponding to different subsystems of the heterogeneous device, wherein the plurality of sections are specified using different programming models. Compiling each section based on the programming model of the section and the subsystem of the heterogeneous device corresponding to the section into an accelerator representation. Linking the accelerator representations based on a platform of the heterogeneous device, generating a hardware implementation of the application for the heterogeneous device based on the linked accelerator implementations, and automatically generating program code configured to control one or more of the plurality of hardware accelerators of the hardware implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: L. James Hwang, Michael Gill, Tom Shui, Jorge E. Carrillo, Alfred Huang, Sudipto Chakraborty
  • Patent number: 10762265
    Abstract: Using a high-level language (HLL) callable library for multiple instances of a core includes detecting, using computer hardware, a reference to an HLL library for a core within an HLL application, determining, using the computer hardware, a plurality of instances of the core by detecting function calls within the HLL application correlated to each of the plurality of instances of the core, and generating, using the computer hardware, interface code within the HLL application for each of the plurality of instances of the core using the HLL library. An executable version of the HLL application is generated, using the computer hardware, wherein the interface code for each of the plurality of instances of the core is bound to the respective instance of the core. The function calls can specify different parameterization files corresponding to the plurality of instances of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenman Fang, James L. Hwang, Alfred Huang, Michael Gill, Tom Shui
  • Patent number: 10755013
    Abstract: Creating a high-level language (HLL) callable library for a hardware core can include automatically querying, using computer hardware, a metadata description of a core to determine a plurality of available ports of the core, automatically determining, using the computer hardware, an argument of a first function specified in a header file corresponding to the core, mapping, using the computer hardware, the argument to a first port of the plurality of available ports, and automatically generating and storing, using the computer hardware, an HLL library specifying a mapping of the argument to the first port of the core. The HLL library is configured for inclusion with a user application during compilation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenman Fang, James L. Hwang, Samuel A. Skalicky, Tom Shui, Michael Gill, Welson Sun, Alfred Huang, Jorge E. Carrillo, Chen Pan
  • Patent number: 9652570
    Abstract: Implementing a system-on-chip (SOC) design specified as a high level programming language (HLL) application may include querying, using a computer, a platform description to determine an available interface of a platform for a target integrated circuit and generating, using the computer, hardware for a function of the HLL application marked for hardware acceleration and hardware coupling the marked function with the available interface of the platform. Implementing the SOC design may also include modifying, using the computer, the HLL application with program code configured to access the generated hardware for the marked function and building, using the computer, the hardware and the software of the SOC design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Vinod K. Kathail, L. James Hwang, Sundararajarao Mohan, Jorge E. Carrillo, Hua Sun, Tom Shui, Yogesh L. Chobe
  • Patent number: 6910002
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for specifying addressability in a memory-mapped device is disclosed. A data access primitive is used to model addressablity for the memory-mapped device. Addressability comprises an address matching function, a lane matching function and one or more bus connections. A first starting address for the memory-mapped device is specified. A first set of addressing matching function, lane matching function and one or more bus connections for the memory-mapped device is generated using the data access primitive and the first starting address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Bart Reynolds, Cheng-I Chuang, Chukwuweta Chukwudebe, Sridhar Krishnamurthy, Damon McCormick, Tom Shui, Kai Zhu