Patents Assigned to Altera Corporation
  • Patent number: 12379698
    Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide efficient power consumption for programmable logic devices based on reducing guardband voltages. A programmable logic device may include circuit monitors to mimic critical paths of an implemented circuit design and generate timing information based on the critical paths. A controller on the programmable logic device may adjust the voltage guardband based on the timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Mahesh K. Kumashikar, Md Altaf Hossain, Mahesh A. Iyer, Yuet Li, Atul Maheshwari, Ankireddy Nalamalpu
  • Patent number: 12373170
    Abstract: A circuit system includes a memory block and first and second processing circuits. The first and second processing circuits store a matrix in the memory block by concurrently writing first and second rows or columns of the matrix to first and second regions of storage in the memory block, respectively. The first and second processing circuits transpose the matrix to generate a transposed matrix by concurrently reading first and second rows or columns of the transposed matrix from third and fourth regions of storage in the memory block, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Hong Shan Neoh
  • Patent number: 12362770
    Abstract: A decoding circuit system includes a load balancing scheduler circuit, a full range decoder circuit, and an auxiliary decoder circuit. The load balancing scheduler circuit provides codewords that each have a lifting factor greater than a predefined value to the full range decoder circuit. The full range decoder circuit decodes the codewords that each have a lifting factor greater than the predefined value to generate first decoded output data. The load balancing scheduler circuit provides codewords that each have a lifting factor less than the predefined value to the auxiliary decoder circuit. The auxiliary decoder circuit decodes the codewords that each have a lifting factor less than the predefined value to generate second decoded output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Spanta Ashjaee, Gee Hang Lui, Jiun-Yee Lin
  • Publication number: 20250226853
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a delay controller circuit that generates delay signals based on a current data bit, an adjustable delay circuit that delays the current data bit, and a driver circuit that drives the current data bit outside the integrated circuit. The driver circuit transitions the current data bit at a first voltage to a second voltage over a first delay provided by the adjustable delay circuit based on the delay signals. The driver circuit transitions the current data bit at the second voltage to a third voltage over a second delay provided by the adjustable delay circuit based on the delay signals. The second voltage is less than the first voltage, and the second voltage is greater than the third voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Seh Leong Goh, Navindra Navaratnam, Pai Ho Bong, Ting Ting Au
  • Publication number: 20250225092
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a central region having logic circuits and networks-on-chip. Each of the networks-on-chip traverses the central region. The integrated circuit also includes an interface region having input and output buffer circuits. The networks-on-chip are configurable to exchange data between the logic circuits and the input and output buffer circuits. One of the networks-on-chip is configurable to place each source that receives the data from one of the logic circuits at one of multiple locations in the one of the networks-on-chip. The one of the networks-on-chip is also configurable to place each sink that provides the data to one of the logic circuits at one of the multiple locations in the one of the networks-on-chip. The input and output buffer circuits are coupled to exchange the data with an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Weber, Rajiv Kumar, Tara Shirvaikar, Ilya Ganusov
  • Patent number: 12340219
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a digital signal processing (DSP) block that includes a plurality of columns of weight registers and a plurality of inputs configured to receive a first plurality of values and a second plurality of values. The first plurality of values is stored in the plurality of columns of weight registers after being received. Additionally, the DSP block includes a plurality of multipliers configured to simultaneously multiply each value of the first plurality of values by each value of the second plurality of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Langhammer, Dongdong Chen, Jason R. Bergendahl
  • Patent number: 12341511
    Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide efficient electric power consumption of programmable logic devices based on providing different voltage levels to different portions (e.g., voltage islands) of the programmable logic device. For example, the programmable logic device may include circuitry to provide different voltage levels to different voltage islands. The programmable logic device may implement and operate logic configurations with different operating parameters using different operating voltages for efficient electric power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Mahesh K. Kumashikar, Ankireddy Nalamalpu, Md Altaf Hossain, Dheeraj Subbareddy, Atul Maheshwari, Yuet Li, Mahesh A. Iyer
  • Patent number: 12334449
    Abstract: A digitally communicative circuit may use standardized interfaces for connection and communication with other circuit components. Such digitally communicative circuit may benefit from using wider variety of interconnect schemes with the respective interfaces for transmission and reception of data. Some chiplets may communicate using a high data bandwidth interface while other chiplets may communicate using interfaces with lower data bandwidth. Alternate interface is introduced that may facilitate scaled communication with Advanced Interface Bus 2.0 without translation circuitry and with different data bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Dheeraj Subbareddy, Ankireddy Nalamalpu, Lai Guan Tang, Mahesh K. Kumashikar
  • Publication number: 20250192785
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a hard logic circuit block, a routing block, and a logic gate circuit block that includes configurable logic gate circuits. The logic gate circuit block is configurable to provide either first output signals of the configurable logic gate circuits to the routing block or second output signals of the hard logic circuit block to the routing block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Ilya Ganusov, Bee Yee Ng, Jeffrey Chromczak, Grace Zgheib
  • Patent number: 12328219
    Abstract: Systems and devices are provided for receiving or transmitting IQ data (e.g., suitable for passband quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)) over a wireline using pairs of baseband pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-n) signals. Encoding circuitry may map data from an input bit stream to IQ data that includes an in-phase component and a quadrature-phase component. Modulator circuitry may determine an in-phase PAM-n signal based on the in-phase component and a quadrature-phase PAM-n signal based on the quadrature-phase component. Driver circuitry may transmit the in-phase PAM-n signal and the quadrature-phase PAM-n signal across a wireline channel. The in-phase PAM-n signal may be different by 90° from the quadrature-phase PAM-n signal. This may enable a remote receiver on the wireline channel to detect the in-phase PAM-n signal independently of the quadrature-phase PAM-n signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Shimanouchi, Hsinho Wu, Peng Li
  • Patent number: 12326749
    Abstract: A circuit system includes a power control circuit that generates multiple voltage identifiers. Multiple voltage regulator circuits generate multiple supply voltages based on the voltage identifiers. The supply voltages are provided to multiple integrated circuit dies. The power control circuit varies the voltage identifiers based on changes in metrics associated with the integrated circuit dies to cause the voltage regulator circuits to vary the supply voltages. Integrated circuit dies receive supply voltages from voltage regulator circuits through power delivery networks. The integrated circuit dies provide voltage sense signals that indicates the supply voltages. The voltage regulator circuits adjust the supply voltages based on the voltage sense signals to compensate for voltage drops in the power delivery networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Archanna Srinivasan, Ravi Gutala, Scott Weber, Aravind Dasu, Mahesh Iyer, Eriko Nurvitadhi
  • Patent number: 12322888
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a circuit board that includes a first edge connector configured to communicatively couple the circuit board to a first connector of a second circuit board. The first edge connector extends from a side of the circuit board a first length. The circuit board also includes a second edge connector configured to communicatively couple the circuit board to a second connector of the second circuit board. The second edge connector extends from the side of the circuit board a second length that is different than the first length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Keith Lyle Spencer, Nicholas James Rally, Victor Raúl Maruri, Reed D. Vilhauer, Brendan Rankin, Elizabeth Heidi Poche, Marcus Negron
  • Patent number: 12321775
    Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide for interrupt migration using a processor and/or system on a chip. The system includes multiple processing cores and an interrupt controller. The interrupt controller includes an input terminal configured to receive an interrupt request and an interrupt controller timer. The interrupt controller also includes an output terminal configured to output an interrupt based on the interrupt request. Furthermore, the interrupt controller includes an interface configuration and status circuitry configured to track a period of time that the interrupt is transmitted to a first processing core of the multiple processing cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Sampath Malalangaradass
  • Patent number: 12316328
    Abstract: An integrated circuit device with a single via layer, in which the via layer includes selectable via sites and/or jumpers. The selectable via sites and/or placement of jumpers may be used to configure and interconnect components and circuitry between distinct layers of multilayer circuits. In some implementations, selectively enabling via sites by filling via openings and/or using jumpers may implement a data strobe generation circuit with a first via configuration and/or a data buffer circuit with a second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Chooi Pei Lim, Eah Loon Alan Chuah, Eng Huat Lee, Marian Serban, Marian Cretu
  • Patent number: 12292752
    Abstract: An electronic system includes first, second, third, and fourth integrated circuit dies. The third integrated circuit die has a first voltage regulator circuit. A supply voltage output of the first voltage regulator circuit is coupled to provide a first supply voltage to a supply voltage input of the first integrated circuit die. The first voltage regulator circuit generates a first power ready signal that indicates when the first supply voltage has reached a first threshold voltage. The fourth integrated circuit die has a second voltage regulator circuit that generates a second supply voltage in response to the first power ready signal. A supply voltage output of the second voltage regulator circuit is coupled to provide the second supply voltage to a supply voltage input of the second integrated circuit die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Aurelien Mozipo, Archanna Srinivasan, Guang Chen, Janani Chandrasekhar
  • Publication number: 20250130943
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a device coherency circuit, first and second traffic generator processor circuits, first and second interfaces, and a processor control finite state machine circuit that causes the first traffic generator processor circuit to perform first coherency data validation for first data sets and that causes the second traffic generator processor circuit to perform second coherency data validation for second data sets. The first traffic generator processor circuit transmits first traffic for the first data sets to the device coherency circuit through the first interface. The second traffic generator processor circuit transmits second traffic for the second data sets to the device coherency circuit through the second interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Divya Vijayaraghavan, Joshua Schabel
  • Publication number: 20250123647
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a first amplifier circuit coupled to receive a first voltage, a second amplifier circuit coupled to receive the first voltage, and a transistor. The second amplifier circuit is coupled to an output of the first amplifier circuit. An input of the transistor is coupled to an output of the second amplifier circuit. The transistor is coupled to the output of the first amplifier circuit. The second amplifier circuit varies a current through the transistor to the output of the first amplifier circuit based on a difference between the first voltage and a second voltage at the output of the first amplifier circuit to supply leakage current drawn by load circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Muhammad Yousuf Siddiqui, Maneesha Yellepeddi
  • Patent number: 12278630
    Abstract: A digital signal processing (DSP) block includes a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) unit capable of performing an FFT operation. The FFT unit includes a first FFT engine capable of converting a signal between a time-domain and a frequency-domain and the first FFT engine is a fixed size FFT engine. The FFT unit also includes a second FFT engine communicatively coupled to the first FFT engine and the second FFT engine is a variable size FFT engine. The FFT unit also includes a scale/offset block communicatively coupled to the second FFT engine and the scale/offset block is capable of performing a multiplication operation, an addition operation, or a combination thereof on an output of the second FFT engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Volker Mauer
  • Publication number: 20250119155
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes filter circuits that partition a wideband digital signal in a frequency domain to generate narrowband digital signals each having a different frequency band, digital-to-analog converter circuits that convert the narrowband digital signals to generate analog signals, and an analog combiner circuit that combines the analog signals into a single wideband analog signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Dan Pritsker
  • Patent number: 12273107
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to dynamically adjusting a timing and/or power model for a programmable logic device. In particular, the present disclosure is directed to adjusting a timing and/or power model of the programmable logic device that operates at a voltage level that is not other than a predefined voltage defined by a voltage library. A system of the present disclosure may interpolate between voltage levels defined by the voltage libraries to generate a new voltage library for the programmable logic device. A timing and/or power model may be generated for the programmable logic device based on the new voltage library and the programmable logic device may be analyzed using the timing and/or power model at the interpolated voltage. The timing and/or power model may be used to generate a bitstream that is used to program the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Atul Maheshwari, Mahesh Iyer, Mahesh K. Kumashikar, Ian Kuon, Yuet Li, Ankireddy Nalamalpu, Dheeraj Subbareddy