Patents by Inventor Erhard Joachim Pistorius

Erhard Joachim Pistorius 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: 9292474
    Abstract: Hybrid adder circuitry is provided for integrated circuits such as programmable integrated circuits. The hybrid adder may combine the capabilities of multiple adder architectures. Hybrid adders may include carry select and carry ripple adder circuits. The adder circuits may be combined using a carry look-ahead architecture. Adder functionality may be implemented using the resources of logic regions on the programmable integrated circuits. Each logic region may include combinatorial logic such as look-up table logic and register circuitry. The hybrid adder circuitry may receive input words to be added from the combinatorial circuitry and may produce corresponding arithmetic sum output signals to the register circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Erhard Joachim Pistorius, Michael D. Hutton
  • Patent number: 8863065
    Abstract: A programmable device system includes one or more network-on-chip (NoC) die layers vertically connected to one or more programmable chip dice layers. The NoC die layer includes interconnects, a bus or non-blocking switches, and optionally memory blocks and direct memory access engines. The NoC die layer improves on-chip communications by providing fast and direct interconnection circuitry between various parts of the programmable chip die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Man-Chit Chow, Rakesh H. Patel, Erhard Joachim Pistorius
  • Patent number: 8719753
    Abstract: A programmable device system includes one or more network-on-chip (NoC) die layers vertically connected to one or more programmable chip dice layers. The NoC die layer includes interconnects, a bus or non-blocking switches, and optionally memory blocks and direct memory access engines. The NoC die layer improves on-chip communications by providing fast and direct interconnection circuitry between various parts of the programmable chip die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Man-Chit Chow, Rakesh H. Patel, Erhard Joachim Pistorius
  • Patent number: 8521801
    Abstract: Hybrid adder circuitry is provided for integrated circuits such as programmable integrated circuits. The hybrid adder may combine the capabilities of multiple adder architectures. Hybrid adders may include carry select and carry ripple adder circuits. The adder circuits may be combined using a carry look-ahead architecture. Adder functionality may be implemented using the resources of logic regions on the programmable integrated circuits. Each logic region may include combinatorial logic such as look-up table logic and register circuitry. The hybrid adder circuitry may receive input words to be added from the combinatorial circuitry and may produce corresponding arithmetic sum output signals to the register circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Erhard Joachim Pistorius, Michael D. Hutton
  • Patent number: 8161469
    Abstract: Compiled configuration files for different programmable logic devices that are intended to be functionally equivalent may be compared using multiple different comparisons to assure functional equivalence. The different comparisons include a fitter or resource report comparison, an engineering bit settings report that compares vectors of bits that represent the settings of hard logic blocks, and comparisons based on location, connectivity and functionality. These comparisons are particularly well-suited for determining equivalence between different models of programmable logic devices, or even different types of devices such as field-programmable gate arrays as compared to mask-programmable logic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Mihail Iotov, Erhard Joachim Pistorius, Jim Park, David Karchmer
  • Patent number: 7804325
    Abstract: To improve interfacing between a block of dedicated function circuitry and blocks of more general purpose circuitry on an integrated circuit (“IC”), signals that are to be output by the dedicated function block are routed internally in that block so that they go into interconnection circuitry on the IC for more efficient application by that interconnection circuitry to the general purpose circuitry. Some of this routing internal to the dedicated function block may be controllably variable. The routing internal to the dedicated function block may also be arranged to take advantage of “sneak” connections that may exist between the dedicated function block and the general purpose blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Erhard Joachim Pistorius, Michael D. Hutton
  • Patent number: 7701252
    Abstract: A programmable device system includes one or more network-on-chip (NoC) die layers vertically connected to one or more programmable chip dice layers. The NoC die layer includes interconnects, a bus or non-blocking switches, and optionally memory blocks and direct memory access engines. The NoC die layer improves on-chip communications by providing fast and direct interconnection circuitry between various parts of the programmable chip die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Man-Chit Chow, Rakesh H. Patel, Erhard Joachim Pistorius
  • Publication number: 20090271465
    Abstract: Hybrid adder circuitry is provided for integrated circuits such as programmable integrated circuits. The hybrid adder may combine the capabilities of multiple adder architectures. Hybrid adders may include carry select and carry ripple adder circuits. The adder circuits may be combined using a carry look-ahead architecture. Adder functionality may be implemented using the resources of logic regions on the programmable integrated circuits. Each logic region may include combinatorial logic such as look-up table logic and register circuitry. The hybrid adder circuitry may receive input words to be added from the combinatorial circuitry and may produce corresponding arithmetic sum output signals to the register circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Erhard Joachim Pistorius, Michael D. Hutton