Patents by Inventor Milovan Duric

Milovan Duric 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).

  • Incorporating a spatial array into one or more programmable processor cores
    Patent number: 9792252
    Abstract: Functional units disposed in one or more processor cores are communicatively coupled using both a shared bypass network and a switched network. The shared bypass network enables the functional units to be operated conventionally for general processing while the switched network enables specialized processing in which the functional units are configured as a spatial array. In the spatial array configuration, operands produced by one functional unit can only be sent to a subset of functional units to which dependent instructions have been mapped a priori. The functional units may be dynamically reconfigured at runtime to toggle between operating in the general configuration and operating as the spatial array. Information to control the toggling between operating configurations may be provided in instructions received by the functional units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas C. Burger, Aaron Smith, Milovan Duric
  • INCORPORATING A SPATIAL ARRAY INTO ONE OR MORE PROGRAMMABLE PROCESSOR CORES
    Publication number: 20150100757
    Abstract: Functional units disposed in one or more processor cores are communicatively coupled using both a shared bypass network and a switched network. The shared bypass network enables the functional units to be operated conventionally for general processing while the switched network enables specialized processing in which the functional units are configured as a spatial array. In the spatial array configuration, operands produced by one functional unit can only be sent to a subset of functional units to which dependent instructions have been mapped a priori. The functional units may be dynamically reconfigured at runtime to toggle between operating in the general configuration and operating as the spatial array. Information to control the toggling between operating configurations may be provided in instructions received by the functional units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas C. Burger, Aaron Smith, Milovan Duric