Patents by Inventor Franz Franchetti

Franz Franchetti 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: 11249720
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a novel multi-way merge network, referred to herein as a Hybrid Comparison Look Ahead Merge (HCLAM), which incurs significantly less resource consumption as scaled to handle larger problems. In addition, a parallelization scheme is disclosed, referred to herein as Parallelization by Radix Pre-sorter (PRaP), which enables an increase in streaming throughput of the merge network. Furthermore, high performance reduction scheme is disclosed to achieve full throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Fazle Sadi, Larry Pileggi, Franz Franchetti
  • Publication number: 20200159492
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a novel multi-way merge network, referred to herein as a Hybrid Comparison Look Ahead Merge (HCLAM), which incurs significantly less resource consumption as scaled to handle larger problems. In addition, a parallelization scheme is disclosed, referred to herein as Parallelization by Radix Pre-sorter (PRaP), which enables an increase in streaming throughput of the merge network. Furthermore, high performance reduction scheme is disclosed to achieve full throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Fazle Sadi, Larry Pileggi, Franz Franchetti
  • Patent number: 9286216
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (3DIC) memory chip including computational logic-in-memory (LiM) for performing accelerated data processing. Related memory systems and methods are also disclosed. In one embodiment, the 3DIC memory chip includes at least one memory layer that provides a primary memory configured to store data. The 3DIC memory chip also includes a computational LiM layer. The computational LiM layer is a type of memory layer having application-specific computational logic integrated into local memory while externally appearing as regular memory. The computational LiM layer and the primary memory are interconnected through through-silica vias (TSVs). In this manner, the computational LiM layer may load data from the primary memory with the 3DIC memory chip without having to access an external bus coupling the 3DIC memory chip to a central processing unit (CPU) or other processors to computationally process the data and generate a computational result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Franz Franchetti, Qiuling Zhu, Lawrence T. Pileggi
  • Publication number: 20150199266
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (3DIC) memory chip including computational logic-in-memory (LiM) for performing accelerated data processing. Related memory systems and methods are also disclosed. In one embodiment, the 3DIC memory chip includes at least one memory layer that provides a primary memory configured to store data. The 3DIC memory chip also includes a computational LiM layer. The computational LiM layer is a type of memory layer having application-specific computational logic integrated into local memory while externally appearing as regular memory. The computational LiM layer and the primary memory are interconnected through through-silica vias (TSVs). In this manner, the computational LiM layer may load data from the primary memory with the 3DIC memory chip without having to access an external bus coupling the 3DIC memory chip to a central processing unit (CPU) or other processors to computationally process the data and generate a computational result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Franz Franchetti, Qiuling Zhu, Lawrence T. Pileggi