Patents by Inventor Chien-Chun Chou

Chien-Chun Chou 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: 11733983
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a high-level function in a high-level code of an application; identifying resources in a hardware to execute a set of low-level instructions that is generated from the high-level function in the high-level code; compiling the high-level function in the high-level code of the application into the set of low-level instructions to be executed on the hardware; and generating a plurality of structured metadata associated with allocation of resources in the hardware to execute the set of low-level instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Senad Durakovic, Chien-Chun Chou, Ulf Hanebutte, Harri Hakkarainen
  • Publication number: 20230015688
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a high-level function in a high-level code of an application; identifying resources in a hardware to execute a set of low-level instructions that is generated from the high-level function in the high-level code; compiling the high-level function in the high-level code of the application into the set of low-level instructions to be executed on the hardware; and generating a plurality of structured metadata associated with allocation of resources in the hardware to execute the set of low-level instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Senad Durakovic, Chien-Chun Chou, Ulf Hanebutte, Harri Hakkarainen
  • Publication number: 20230004365
    Abstract: A system includes a compiler including a plurality of compiler blocks. The compiler blocks of the plurality of compiler blocks are compossible. The compiler is configured to identify one or more resources in a hardware to execute a set of low-level instructions that is generated from a high-level function in a high-level code. The compiler is further configured to determine one or more processing operations to be performed that is associated with the high-level function in the high-level code. The determining of the one or more processing operations occurs based on architecture of the hardware. The compiler is configured to compile the high-level function in the high-level code of the application into the set of low-level instructions to be executed on the hardware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Ulf Hanebutte, Senad Durakovic, Chien-Chun Chou, Fu-Hwa Wang, Mohana Tandyala
  • Patent number: 11467811
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a high-level function in a high-level code of an application is received. The method also include identifying resources in a hardware to execute a set of low-level instructions that is generated from the high-level function in the high-level code. One or more processing operations are determined to be performed that is associated with the high-level function in the high-level code. The determining of the one or more processing operations occurs based on architecture of the hardware. The high-level function in the high-level code of the application is compiled into the set of low-level instructions to be executed on the hardware. A plurality of structured metadata is generated and includes information associated with the determining resources in the hardware and further includes information associated with the determining one or more processing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Senad Durakovic, Chien-Chun Chou, Ulf Hanebutte, Harri Hakkarainen
  • Patent number: 10664421
    Abstract: Flow logic supports concurrency of multiple threads and/or tag IDs to be concurrently communicated across the interconnect while allowing the one or more target IP cores to be able to reorder incoming request transactions from the initiator IP core in a manner that is optimal for that target IP core while relieving that target IP core from having to maintain the sequential issue order of transaction responses to the incoming request transactions in the thread or tags when processed by the target IP core. The flow logic cooperates with the reorder storage buffers to control an operation of the reorder storage buffers as well as control issuance of at least the request transactions from the initiator IP core onto the interconnect in order to maintain proper sequential ordering of the transaction responses for the thread or tags when the transaction responses are returned back to the initiator IP core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Jeremy Chan, Drew E. Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou, Hervé Jacques Alexanian, Kevin L. Daberkow, Harutyun Aslanyan, Timothy A. Pontius
  • Patent number: 10303628
    Abstract: Flow logic supports concurrency of multiple threads and/or tag IDs to be concurrently communicated across the interconnect while allowing the one or more target IP cores to be able to reorder incoming request transactions from the initiator IP core in a manner that is optimal for that target IP core while relieving that target IP core from having to maintain the sequential issue order of transaction responses to the incoming request transactions in the thread or tags when processed by the target IP core. The flow logic cooperates with the reorder storage buffers to control an operation of the reorder storage buffers as well as control issuance of at least the request transactions from the initiator IP core onto the interconnect in order to maintain proper sequential ordering of the transaction responses for the thread or tags when the transaction responses are returned back to the initiator IP core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Chan, Drew E. Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou, Hervé Jacques Alexanian, Kevin L. Daberkow, Harutyun Aslanyan, Timothy A. Pontius
  • Patent number: 10062422
    Abstract: An interconnect for an integrated circuit communicating transactions between initiator Intellectual Property (IP) cores and multiple target IP cores coupled to the interconnect is generally described. The interconnect routes the transactions between the target IP cores and initiator IP cores in the integrated circuit. A first aggregate target of the target IP cores includes two or more memory channels that are interleaved in an address space for the first aggregate target in the address map. Each memory channel is divided up in defined memory interleave segments and then interleaved with memory interleave segments from other memory channels. An address map is divided up into two or more regions. Each interleaved memory interleave segment is assigned to at least one of those regions and populates the address space for that region, and parameters associated with the regions and memory interleave segments are configurable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew E. Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou, Stephen W. Hamilton, Ian Andrew Swarbrick, Vida Vakilotojar
  • Publication number: 20170140800
    Abstract: An interconnect for an integrated circuit communicating transactions between initiator Intellectual Property (IP) cores and multiple target IP cores coupled to the interconnect is generally described. The interconnect routes the transactions between the target IP cores and initiator IP cores in the integrated circuit. A first aggregate target of the target IP cores includes two or more memory channels that are interleaved in an address space for the first aggregate target in the address map. Each memory channel is divided up in defined memory interleave segments and then interleaved with memory interleave segments from other memory channels. An address map is divided up into two or more regions. Each interleaved memory interleave segment is assigned to at least one of those regions and populates the address space for that region, and parameters associated with the regions and memory interleave segments are configurable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew E. Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou, Stephen W. Hamilton, Ian Andrew Swarbrick, Vida Vakilotojar
  • Patent number: 9495290
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are described, which generally relate to an integrated circuit having an interconnect that implements internal controls. The interconnect in an integrated circuit communicates transactions between initiator Intellectual Property (IP) cores and target IP cores coupled to the interconnect. The interconnect implements logic configured to support multiple transactions issued from a first initiator IP core to the multiple target IP cores while maintaining an expected execution order within the transactions. The logic supports a second transaction to be issued from the first initiator IP core to a second target IP core before a first transaction issued from the same first initiator IP core to a first target IP core has completed while ensuring that the first transaction completes before the second transaction and while ensuring an expected execution order within the first transaction and second transaction are maintained. The logic does not include any reorder buffering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew E. Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou, Stephen W. Hamilton, Ian Andrew Swarbrick, Vida Vakilotojar
  • Publication number: 20160188501
    Abstract: Flow logic supports concurrency of multiple threads and/or tag IDs to be concurrently communicated across the interconnect while allowing the one or more target IP cores to be able to reorder incoming request transactions from the initiator IP core in a manner that is optimal for that target IP core while relieving that target IP core from having to maintain the sequential issue order of transaction responses to the incoming request transactions in the thread or tags when processed by the target IP core. The flow logic cooperates with the reorder storage buffers to control an operation of the reorder storage buffers as well as control issuance of at least the request transactions from the initiator IP core onto the interconnect in order to maintain proper sequential ordering of the transaction responses for the thread or tags when the transaction responses are returned back to the initiator IP core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Jeremy Chan, Drew E. Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou, Hervé Jacques Alexanian, Kevin L. Daberkow, Harutyun Aslanyan, Timothy A. Pontius
  • Patent number: 9292436
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are described, which generally relate to an interconnect routing transactions to target IP cores, including two or more channels making up a first aggregate target. The two or more channels populate an address space assigned to the first aggregate target and appear as a single target to the initiator IP cores. The interconnect implements chopping logic to chop an individual transaction from a first initiator IP core whose address sequence crosses a channel address boundary from a first channel to a second channel within the first aggregate target into two or more burst transactions. A first chopped burst transaction is chopped to fit within the address boundaries of the first channel and a second chopped burst transaction is chopped to fit within the address boundaries of the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew E. Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou, Stephen W. Hamilton, Ian Andrew Swarbrick, Vida Vakilotojar
  • Patent number: 9087036
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transaction level modeling where communications occur between modules in the system that contain time annotations is described. An apparatus includes an initiator module, a target module, and a communications channel with each being modeled as an executable behavioral model. The communications channel transports burst information between the initiator module and the target module. The communications channel has a timing variable function to store timing variables and derive timing information associated with each individual transfer within a burst transaction during a simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chien-Chun Chou, Alan Kamas
  • Patent number: 8972995
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system in which an integrated circuit comprises an initiator Intellectual Property (IP) core, a target IP core, an interconnect, and a tag and thread logic. The target IP core may include a memory coupled to the initiator IP core. Additionally, the interconnect can allow the integrated circuit to communicate transactions between one or more initiator Intellectual Property (IP) cores and one or more target IP cores coupled to the interconnect. A tag and thread logic can be configured to concurrently perform per-thread and per-tag memory access scheduling within a thread and across multiple threads such that the tag and thread logic manages tags and threads to allow for per-tag and per-thread scheduling of memory accesses requests from the initiator IP core out of order from an initial issue order of the memory accesses requests from the initiator IP core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishnan Srinivasan, Ruben Khazhakyan, Harutyan Aslanyan, Drew E. Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou
  • Patent number: 8868397
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system in which a modeling tool made up of a testbench executable program validates behavior of one or more sub-components of an electronic system design modeled as one or more executable behavioral models and a transactor translates a behavior of the sub-components between one or more different levels of abstraction derived from a same design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Herve Jacques Alexanian, Chien Chun Chou
  • Patent number: 8504992
    Abstract: In general, methods and apparatus for implementing a Quality of Service (QoS) model are disclosed. A Quality of Service (QoS) contract with an initiating network device may be satisfied. A request may be received from the initiating network device in a first time less than or equal to an ordinal number times an arrival interval. The ordinal number signifies a position of the request among a group of requests. The request that has been serviced may be returned to the initiator in a second time less than or equal to a constant term plus the ordinal number times a service interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Chien-Chun Chou, Drew E. Wingard
  • Patent number: 8438320
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatus are described for a target with multiple channels. Address decoding logic is configured to implement a distribution of requests from individual burst requests to two or more memory channels making up an aggregate target. The address decoding logic implements a channel-selection hash function to allow requests from each individual burst request to be distributed amongst the two or more channels in a non-linear sequential pattern in channel round order that make up the aggregate target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishnan Srinivasan, Drew E. Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou
  • Patent number: 8407433
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an interconnect for an integrated circuit communicates transactions between one or more initiator Intellectual Property (IP) cores and multiple target IP cores coupled to the interconnect. Two or more memory channels make up a first aggregate target of the target IP cores. The two or more memory channels populate an address space assigned to the first aggregate target and appear as a single target to the initiator IP cores. The interconnect implements chopping logic to chop individual two-dimensional (2D) transactions that cross the memory channel address boundaries from a first memory channel to a second memory channel within the first aggregate target into two or more 2D transactions with a height value greater than one, as well as stride and width dimensions, which are chopped to fit within memory channel address boundaries of the first aggregate target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Drew E. Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou, Stephen W. Hamilton, Ian Andrew Swarbrick, Vida Vakilotojar
  • Patent number: 8229723
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatuses are described that provide instrumentation and analysis of an electronic design. A method for providing performance instrumentation and analysis of the electronic design includes defining a first and second set of intended software instrumentation test points and an associated first and second set of performance analysis units. The method further includes instrumenting the first and second sets of software instrumentation test points and the associated first and second sets of performance analysis units to a first model and a second model, respectively. The method further includes creating a first and a second set of software instances associated with the first and second sets of intended software instrumentation test points and associated sets of performance analysis units during run time of a first simulation and a second simulation of the electronic design associated with the first model and second model, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishnan Srinivasan, Chien-Chun Chou, Drew Wingard
  • Publication number: 20120036296
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system are described, which generally relate to an integrated circuit having an interconnect. The flow control logic for the interconnect applies a flow control splitting protocol to permit transactions from each initiator thread and/or each initiator tag stream to be outstanding to multiple channels in a single aggregate target at once, and therefore to multiple individual targets within an aggregate target at once. The combined flow control logic and flow control protocol allows the interconnect to manage simultaneous requests to multiple channels in an aggregate target from the same thread or tag at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: SONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Drew E. Wingard, Chien-Chun Chou, Stephen W. Hamilton, Ian Andrew Swarbrick, Vida Vakilotojar
  • Publication number: 20120036509
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system in which an integrated circuit comprises an initiator Intellectual Property (IP) core, a target IP core, an interconnect, and a tag and thread logic. The target IP core may include a memory coupled to the initiator IP core. Additionally, the interconnect can allow the integrated circuit to communicate transactions between one or more initiator Intellectual Property (IP) cores and one or more target IP cores coupled to the interconnect. A tag and thread logic can be configured to concurrently perform per-thread and per-tag memory access scheduling within a thread and across multiple threads such that the tag and thread logic manages tags and threads to allow for per-tag and per-thread scheduling of memory accesses requests from the initiator IP core out of order from an initial issue order of the memory accesses requests from the initiator IP core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: SONICS, INC
    Inventors: KRISHNAN SRINIVASAN, RUBEN KHAZHAKYAN, HARUTYUN ASLANYAN, DREW E. WINGARD, CHIEN-CHUN CHOU