Patents by Inventor Allan Kennedy Porterfield

Allan Kennedy Porterfield 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: 11815935
    Abstract: An assembly language program for a coarse grained reconfiguration array (CGRA), having dispatch interface information indicating operations to be performed via a dispatch interface of the CGRA to receive an input, memory interface information indicating operations to be performed via one or more memory interfaces of the CGRA, tile memory information indicating memory variables referring to memory locations to be implemented in tile memories of the CGRA, a flow description specifying one or more synchronous data flows, through the memory locations referenced via the memory variables in the tile memory information, to produce a result from the input using the CGRA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Skyler Arron Windh, Allan Kennedy Porterfield, Douglas John Vanesko, Randall Paul Meyer, Patrick Alan Estep, Bashar Romanous
  • Publication number: 20230315415
    Abstract: An assembly language program for a coarse grained reconfiguration array (CGRA), having dispatch interface information indicating operations to be performed via a dispatch interface of the CGRA to receive an input, memory interface information indicating operations to be performed via one or more memory interfaces of the CGRA, tile memory information indicating memory variables referring to memory locations to be implemented in tile memories of the CGRA, a flow description specifying one or more synchronous data flows, through the memory locations referenced via the memory variables in the tile memory information, to produce a result from the input using the CGRA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Skyler Arron Windh, Allan Kennedy Porterfield, Douglas John Vanesko, Randall Paul Meyer, Patrick Alan Estep, Bashar Romanous
  • Publication number: 20230305848
    Abstract: Schedule instructions of a program for execution on a coarse grained reconfigurable array having a plurality of tiles operable in parallel. The program identifies data flows through memory locations represented by memory variables and identifies instructions configured to transform data in the data flows. Based on a hardware profile identifying features of the coarse grained reconfigurable array, a scheduler is configured to generate a memory map. The memory map identifies, for each respective memory variable in the program, one of the tiles that contains a memory location represented by the respective memory variable. Based on the memory map reducing possible choices for a brute force search, the scheduler assigns the instructions to the tiles for execution, and determines timing of execution of the instructions in the tiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Allan Kennedy Porterfield, Skyler Arron Windh, Bashar Romanous