Patents Assigned to Altera Corporation
  • Patent number: 12688021
    Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide a computing system that includes a processor and one or more implemented designs in one or more configurable circuits of a programmable logic fabric. The computing system also includes a memory coupled to the programmable logic fabric. The computing system further includes an accelerator that is located in-line between the one or more configurable circuits and the memory. The accelerator is defined using a low-level programming language. The processor is coupled to the accelerator and is configured to enable modification of the definition of the accelerator by converting a high-level programming language to the low-level programming language to change the way that the accelerator operates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Nij Dorairaj
  • Patent number: 12687871
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a diode for generating a temperature dependent voltage, a resistor divider for generating divided voltages by dividing the temperature dependent voltage, and a multiplexer circuit for selecting one of the divided voltages as a reference voltage used for setting a supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Ping-Chen Liu
  • Patent number: 12682221
    Abstract: A method for implementing an artificial neural network in a computing system that comprises performing a compute operation using an input activation and a weight to generate an output activation, and modifying the output activation using a noise value to increase activation sparsity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Nihat Tunali, Arnab Raha, Bogdan Pasca, Martin Langhammer, Michael Wu, Deepak Mathaikutty
  • Patent number: 12675229
    Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide a programmable fabric including programmable logic. The programmable logic may include memory, a network-on-chip (NOC), and at least one micro NOC formed with hardened resources in the programmable fabric. Further, the at least one micro NOC may be communicatively coupled to the NOC and to the programmable logic. Additionally, the at least one micro NOC may selectively route data between the NOC and the programmable logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Bee Yee Ng, Ilya K. Ganusov, Scott Jeremy Weber
  • Patent number: 12672558
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed generally to semiconductor packages, semiconductor package substrates, and methods for making them, which include packages substrates with embedded passive devices positioned between plated through hole vias configured for an improved power delivery network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Loke Yip Foo, Teong Guan Yew, Bok Eng Cheah
  • Patent number: 12665681
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a filter circuit and a computation circuit that applies emphasis to a data stream in a frequency domain to reduce distortion to the data stream caused by the filter circuit. The emphasis is determined based on the distortion caused by the filter circuit. A circuit design system includes logic synthesis and optimization tools that relax parameters for a first filter circuit to generate relaxed parameters, use the relaxed parameters to generate a second filter circuit that filters data, generate an emphasis vector based on distortion in the data caused by the second filter circuit, and generate a computation circuit that applies the emphasis vector to the data to reduce the distortion in the data caused by the second filter circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Volker Mauer
  • Patent number: 12664082
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, via a communication link and at a device of an integrated circuit system, a cache line comprising a destination address, determining, via the device, a type of memory or storage associated with the destination address, the type of memory or storage comprising persistent or non-persistent, and tagging the cache line with metadata in a manner indicating the type of memory or storage associated with the destination address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Sharath Raghava, Nagabhushan Chitlur, Harsha Gupta
  • Publication number: 20260169692
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a digital signal processing circuit. The digital signal processing circuit includes fixed point multiplier circuits, floating point multiplier circuits, and adder circuits. The digital signal processing circuit is configurable to implement a reduction of floating point multiplication operations based on floating point inputs to the digital signal processing circuit using the fixed point multiplier circuits, the floating point multiplier circuits, and the adder circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    Applicant: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Langhammer, Ilya Ganusov, Dongdong Chen, Jason Bergendahl
  • Patent number: 12645853
    Abstract: A processing integrated circuit includes a processing core comprising hard logic circuits and a programmable interface circuit configurable to exchange signals between an external terminal of the processing integrated circuit and the hard logic circuits in the processing core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Md Altaf Hossain, Mahesh Kumashikar, Ankireddy Nalamalpu, Sreedhar Ravipalli
  • Patent number: 12632627
    Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide efficient circuit implementation on processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may include a processor, a programmable hardware, or both. The systems and methods may include determining and removing unused and/or redundant portions of predefined software and hardware description instructions before implementing associated circuitry. The implemented circuitry may perform various functions including parsing, pipelining, deparsing, temporary storage and combining, math operations, or a combination thereof, among other things.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Krishna Kumar Nagar, Nathan Krueger, Yi Peng, Brandon Lewis Gordon, Anand Venkitasubramani
  • Patent number: 12633925
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to methods of disaggregating columnar IO operations from a programmable logic fabric using 3-D packaging technology. More specifically, methods of 3-D programmable fabric arrangements that include one or more IO chiplets stacked in a 3-D orientation on a programmable logic fabric main die that includes one or more D2D drivers to enable communication between the one or more IO chiplets and the programmable logic fabric main die. The IO chiplets may be coupled to the programmable fabric main die through connection to the one or more D2D drivers arranged on the programmable fabric main die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: ALTERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mahesh K. Kumashikar, Ankireddy Nalamalpu, Atul Maheshwari, Lai Guan Tang
  • Publication number: 20260133922
    Abstract: A configurable integrated circuit includes a network-on-chip and a response buffer circuit coupled to the network-on-chip. The response buffer circuit includes a direct memory access circuit and a controller circuit. The direct memory access circuit generates read requests and write requests to access memory circuits. The controller circuit provides the read requests and the write requests to the memory circuits through the network-on-chip. The controller circuit exchanges data with the memory circuits for the read requests and the write requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Applicant: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Tara Shirvaikar, Scott Weber, Zhi-Hern Loh, Jarrod Blackburn, Ian Hansen
  • Patent number: 12627513
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes: instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: retrieve a random number and a physical unclonable function (PUF) from a trusted environment; generate a virtual PUF (vPUF) based on a trusted operation including the random number and the PUF; and store the vPUF and the random number in a persistent storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Tat Kin Tan, Siew Chin Lim, Boon Khai Ng
  • Patent number: 12619434
    Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a programmable fabric and a processor. The processor may utilize one or more extension architectures. At least one of these extension architectures may be used to integrate and/or embed the programmable fabric into the processor as part of the processor. Specifically, a buffer of the extension architecture may be used to load data to and store data from the programmable fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Dheeraj Subbareddy, Anshuman Thakur, Ankireddy Nalamalpu, MD Altaf Hossain
  • Patent number: 12620981
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a multiplexer circuit coupled to receive a first clock signal and a second clock signal and coupled to provide an output clock signal to a channel. A protection circuit is coupled to receive a feedback signal from the channel. The protection circuit causes the multiplexer circuit to provide oscillations in the second clock signal to the output clock signal in response to the feedback signal indicating that the channel is idle to cause the channel to be in a protection mode that reduces degradation from bias temperature instability. The protection circuit causes the multiplexer circuit to provide oscillations in the first clock signal to the output clock signal in response to the feedback signal indicating that the channel is active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Han Hua Leong, Sze Ming Chow, David Mendel, Jia Yong Chang, Ryan Caldwell
  • Patent number: 12620423
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a first input/output lane comprising first external terminals and first driver circuits. The first driver circuits exchange signals with a first external device through the first external terminals as part of a first external interface. The first input/output lane is part of a sub-bank in an input/output bank that implements at least a part of the first external interface. The integrated circuit includes a second input/output lane comprising second external terminals and second driver circuits. The second driver circuits exchange signals with a second external device through the second external terminals as part of a second external interface. The second input/output lane is part of the sub-bank in the input/output bank that implements at least a part of the second external interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Archanna Srinivasan, Arvind Tirumalai, Arch Zaliznyak, Gopal Iyer, Hon Khet Chuah, Arun Patel, Kok Kee Looi
  • Patent number: 12613830
    Abstract: An accelerated processor structure on a programmable integrated circuit device includes a processor and a plurality of configurable digital signal processors (DSPs). Each configurable DSP includes a circuit block, which in turn includes a plurality of multipliers. The accelerated processor structure further includes a first bus to transfer data from the processor to the configurable DSPs, and a second bus to transfer data from the configurable DSPs to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: David Shippy, Martin Langhammer, Jeffrey Eastlack
  • Patent number: 12607977
    Abstract: A circuit system includes a processing circuit, an accelerator circuit, and a buffer circuit that stores packets of data and that is coupled to the processing circuit and to the accelerator circuit. The buffer circuit functions as a crossbar circuit by allowing each of the accelerator circuit and the processing circuit to access at least one of the packets of data stored in the buffer circuit during access to another one of the packets of data stored in the buffer circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Sreedhar Ravipalli, Mahesh Kumashikar, Md Altaf Hossain, Ankireddy Nalamalpu
  • Publication number: 20260106619
    Abstract: A configurable integrated circuit includes first logic circuits, second logic circuits, and a crossbar switch circuit. The crossbar switch circuit includes multiplexer circuits and input busses coupled to the multiplexer circuits. The inputs of each of the multiplexer circuits are coupled to each of the input busses. The configurable integrated circuit is configurable to provide input signals generated by the first logic circuits to the inputs of each of the multiplexer circuits through the input busses. The multiplexer circuits are configurable to provide values of the input signals that are received through the input busses to the second logic circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Applicant: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Langhammer, Ilya Ganusov, Gregg Baeckler
  • Patent number: 12602529
    Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide a programmable logic device including a network-on-chip (NoC) to facilitate data transfer between one or more main intellectual property components (main IP) and one or more secondary intellectual property components (secondary IP). To reduce or prevent excessive congestion on the NoC, the NoC may include one or more traffic throttlers that may receive feedback from a data buffer, a main bridge, or both and adjust data injection rate based on the feedback. Additionally, the NoC may include a data mapper to enable data transfer to be remapped from a first destination to a second destination if congestion is detected at the first destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2026
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Rahul Pal, Ashish Gupta, Navid Azizi, Jeffrey Schulz, Yin Chong Hew, Ngo Gia Thuyet, George Chong Hean Ooi, Vikrant Kapila, Kok Kee Looi