Patents by Inventor Chian-Min Richard Ho
Chian-Min Richard Ho 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).
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Patent number: 12248745Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip placement. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip placement, comprising placing a respective macro node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the macro node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Anna Darling Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Ebrahim Songhori, Wenjie Jiang, Shen Wang, Roger David Carpenter, Young-Joon Lee, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Chian-min Richard Ho, Quoc V. Le, James Laudon, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Kavya Srinivasa Setty, Omkar Pathak
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Publication number: 20250053714Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip floorplan. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip floorplan, comprising placing a respective node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Chian-min Richard Ho, William Hang, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Anna Darling Goldie, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Azalia Mirhoseini, Emre Tuncer, Ya Wang, Anand Babu
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Publication number: 20250046775Abstract: Described herein is a packaging approach that employs a remapping layer to maintain compatibility to different types of electronic chips while allowing chip designers to standardize the layout of the electrical interface of a photonic interposer. A remapping layer remaps the electrical interface of an electronic chip to the electrical interface of a photonic interposer. Remapping layers may be implemented in various ways, including for example as monolithic electronic interposers and/or as individual remapping chips. In some embodiments, to reduce manufacturing costs, remapping layers may be implemented using passive electronics (without transistors). Because remapping layers are significantly less costly to manufacture than photonic interposers, shifting the need to provide ad hoc electrical interfaces from the photonic interposer to the remapping layer enhances the applicability of photonic interposers in computational, telecom and datacom settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Applicant: Lightmatter, Inc.Inventors: Chian-min Richard Ho, Clifford Chao, Jessie Rosenberg, Anthony Kopa, Hamid Eslampour, Darius Bunandar
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Patent number: 12086516Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip floorplan. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip floorplan, comprising placing a respective node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Chian-min Richard Ho, William Hang, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Anna Darling Goldie, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Azalia Mirhoseini, Emre Tuncer, Ya Wang, Anand Babu
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Publication number: 20240273270Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating learned representations of digital circuit designs. One of the systems includes obtaining data representing a program that implements a digital circuit design, the program comprising a plurality of statements; processing the obtained data to generate data representing a graph representing the digital circuit design, the graph comprising: a plurality of nodes representing respective statements of the program, a plurality of first edges each representing a control flow between a pair of statements of the program, and a plurality of second edges each representing a data flow between a pair of statements of the program; and generating a learned representation of the digital circuit design, comprising processing the data representing the graph using a graph neural network to generate a respective learned representation of each statement represented by a node of the graph.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Shobha Vasudevan, Wenjie Jiang, Charles Aloysius Sutton, Rishabh Singh, David Bieber, Milad Olia Hashemi, Chian-min Richard Ho, Hamid Shojaei
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Publication number: 20240264395Abstract: Provided herein are optical fiber arrays and optical assemblies included optical fiber arrays. The optical fiber array includes a fiber array chip that has first optical connections disposed on a first edge of the fiber array chip and second optical connections disposed on a second edge of the fiber array chip. Optical fibers are coupled to the first optical connections. Active devices (e.g., photonic and/or electronic devices) are disposed on the fiber array chip. The optical fiber array is removably, optically couplable to another optical component such as a photonic integrated circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: Lightmatter, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas C. Harris, Jessie Rosenberg, Chian-min Richard Ho, Sandeep Sane, Binoy Shah, Shashank Gupta, Darius Bunandar
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Publication number: 20240249058Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip placement. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip placement, comprising placing a respective macro node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the macro node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Anna Darling Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Ebrahim Songhori, Wenjie Jiang, Shen Wang, Roger David Carpenter, Young-Joon Lee, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Chian-min Richard Ho, Quoc V. Le, James Laudon, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Kavya Srinivasa Setty, Omkar Pathak
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Patent number: 11853677Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip placement. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip placement, comprising placing a respective macro node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the macro node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Anna Darling Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Ebrahim Songhori, Wenjie Jiang, Shen Wang, Roger David Carpenter, Young-Joon Lee, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Chian-min Richard Ho, Quoc V. Le, James Laudon, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Kavya Srinivasa Setty, Omkar Pathak
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Publication number: 20230394203Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip floorplan. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip floorplan, comprising placing a respective node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Chian-min Richard Ho, William Hang, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Anna Darling Goldie, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Azalia Mirhoseini, Emre Tuncer, Ya Wang, Anand Babu
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Publication number: 20230376645Abstract: This document discloses systems and methods for implementing automatic test parameter tuning in constrained random verification. In aspects, a method receives a first set of parameters for testing a design under test, performs a first regression (e.g., an overnight regression test) on a design under test using the first set of parameters, and analyzes the results of the first regression including determining a coverage percentage. The method then generates an optimized set of parameters based on the analysis of the results of the first regression and performs an additional regression on the design under test using the optimized set of parameters. In aspects, the method is repeated using the optimized set of parameters until a coverage percentage is reached, or in some implementations, full coverage may be reached. Some implementations of the method utilize black-box optimization through use of a Bayesian optimization algorithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Hamid Shojaei, Qijing Huang, Chian-min Richard Ho, Satrajit Chatterjee, Shobha Vasudevan, Azade Nazi, Frederick Dennis Zyda
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Patent number: 11675940Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip floorplan. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip floorplan, comprising placing a respective node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Chian-Min Richard Ho, William Hang, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Anna Darling Goldie, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Azalia Mirhoseini, Emre Tuncer, Ya Wang, Anand Babu
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Publication number: 20230117786Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip placement. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip placement, comprising placing a respective macro node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the macro node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Anna Darling Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Ebrahim Songhori, Wenjie Jiang, Shen Wang, Roger David Carpenter, Young-Joon Lee, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Chian-min Richard Ho, Quoc V. Le, James Laudon, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Kavya Srinivasa Setty, Omkar Pathak
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Patent number: 11556690Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip placement. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip placement, comprising placing a respective macro node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the macro node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Anna Darling Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Ebrahim Songhori, Wenjie Jiang, Shen Wang, Roger David Carpenter, Young-Joon Lee, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Chian-min Richard Ho, Quoc V. Le, James Laudon, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Kavya Srinivasa Setty, Omkar Pathak
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Publication number: 20220108058Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip placement. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip placement, comprising placing a respective macro node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the macro node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: Anna Darling Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Ebrahim Songhori, Wenjie Jiang, Shen Wang, Roger David Carpenter, Young-Joon Lee, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Chian-min Richard Ho, Quoc V. Le, James Laudon, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Kavya Srinivasa Setty, Omkar Pathak
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Publication number: 20220043951Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip floorplan. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip floorplan, comprising placing a respective node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Chian-min Richard Ho, William Hang, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Anna Darling Goldie, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Azalia Mirhoseini, Emre Tuncer, Ya Wang, Anand Babu
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Patent number: 11216609Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip placement. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip placement, comprising placing a respective macro node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the macro node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Anna Darling Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Ebrahim Songhori, Wenjie Jiang, Shen Wang, Roger David Carpenter, Young-Joon Lee, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Chian-Min Richard Ho, Quoc V. Le, James Laudon, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Kavya Srinivasa Setty, Omkar Pathak
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Publication number: 20210334445Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip placement. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip placement, comprising placing a respective macro node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the macro node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Anna Darling Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini, Ebrahim Songhori, Wenjie Jiang, Shen Wang, Roger David Carpenter, Young-Joon Lee, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Chian-min Richard Ho, Quoc V. Le, James Laudon, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Kavya Srinivasa Setty, Omkar Pathak
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Patent number: 11100266Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip floorplan. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip floorplan, comprising placing a respective node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Chian-min Richard Ho, William Hang, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Anna Darling Goldie, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Azalia Mirhoseini, Emre Tuncer, Ya Wang, Anand Babu
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Publication number: 20200364389Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip floorplan. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip floorplan, comprising placing a respective node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Chian-min Richard Ho, William Hang, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Anna Darling Goldie, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Azalia Mirhoseini, Emre Tuncer, Ya Wang, Anand Babu
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Patent number: 10699043Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip floorplan. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip floorplan, comprising placing a respective node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Chian-min Richard Ho, William Hang, Mustafa Nazim Yazgan, Anna Darling Goldie, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Azalia Mirhoseini, Emre Tuncer, Ya Wang, Anand Babu