Patents by Inventor AFONSO SOARES CANAS FERREIRA

AFONSO SOARES CANAS FERREIRA 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).

  • Method and apparatus for optimizing code for field programmable gate arrays
    Patent number: 11656857
    Abstract: A method for the generation of a hardware accelerator (20) is described. The method comprises inputting (110) a program (105) with a plurality of lines of code describing an algorithm to be implemented on the hardware accelerator (20) and generating (125) a dataflow graph in memory from the inputted program (105). The dataflow graph is optimized and an output program (140) created from the dataflow graph is output. The output program (140) is then provided to a high-level synthesis tool for generating the hardware accelerator (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: INESC TEC—Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas
    Inventors: Afonso Soares Canas Ferreira, João Manuel Paiva Cardoso
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING CODE FOR FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS
    Publication number: 20210382702
    Abstract: A method for the generation of a hardware accelerator (20) is described. The method comprises inputting (110) a program (105) with a plurality of lines of code describing an algorithm to be implemented on the hardware accelerator (20) and generating (125) a dataflow graph in memory from the inputted program (105). The dataflow graph is optimized and an output program (140) created from the dataflow graph is output. The output program (140) is then provided to a high-level synthesis tool for generating the hardware accelerator (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: AFONSO SOARES CANAS FERREIRA, JOÃO MANUEL PAIVA CARDOSO