Patents by Inventor Nitish U. Natu
Nitish U. Natu 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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Publication number: 20230131459Abstract: An integrated circuit including a multiplier-accumulator execution pipeline including a plurality of multiplier-accumulator circuits to, in operation, perform multiply and accumulate operations, wherein each multiplier-accumulator circuit includes: (i) a multiplier to multiply first input data, having a first floating point data format, by a filter weight data, having the first floating point data format, and generate and output a product data having a second floating point data format, and (ii) an accumulator, coupled to the multiplier of the associated MAC circuit, to add second input data and the product data output by the associated multiplier to generate sum data. The plurality of multiplier-accumulator circuits of the multiplier-accumulator execution pipeline may be connected in series and, in operation, perform a plurality of concatenated multiply and accumulate operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Cheng C. Wang, Fang-Li Yuan, Nitish U. Natu
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Publication number: 20200401414Abstract: An integrated circuit including a multiplier-accumulator execution pipeline including a plurality of multiplier-accumulator circuits to, in operation, perform multiply and accumulate operations, wherein each multiplier-accumulator circuit includes: (i) a multiplier to multiply first input data, having a first floating point data format, by a filter weight data, having the first floating point data format, and generate and output a product data having a second floating point data format, and (ii) an accumulator, coupled to the multiplier of the associated MAC circuit, to add second input data and the product data output by the associated multiplier to generate sum data. The plurality of multiplier-accumulator circuits of the multiplier-accumulator execution pipeline may be connected in series and, in operation, perform a plurality of concatenated multiply and accumulate operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Applicant: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Cheng C. Wang, Fang-Li Yuan, Nitish U. Natu
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Patent number: 10686448Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising (1) an array of logic tiles including a first and a second plurality of logic tiles, wherein each logic tile of the array is configurable to electrically connect with at least one other logic tile, and (2) a clock mesh fabric to provide a mesh clock signal to the first plurality of the logic tiles. Each logic tile of the first plurality includes clock distribution and transmission circuitry including: (1) tile clock generation circuitry configurable to generate a tile clock signal having a skew which is balanced with respect to the tile clock signals of each logic tile of the first plurality of logic tiles, and (2) clock selection circuitry configurable to receive the mesh clock signal and the tile clock signal and responsively output the tile clock to the circuitry which performs operations using or based on the associated tile clock.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nitish U. Natu, Abhijit M. Abhyankar, Cheng C. Wang
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Patent number: 10587271Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising an array of logic tiles, arranged in an array of rows and columns. The array of logic tiles includes a first logic tile to receive a first external clock signal wherein each logic tile of a first plurality of logic tiles generates the tile clock using (i) the first external clock signal or (ii) a delayed version thereof from one of the plurality of output clock paths of a logic tile in the first plurality, and a second logic tile to receive a second external clock signal wherein each logic tile of a second plurality of logic tiles generates the tile clock using (i) the second external clock signal or (ii) a delayed version thereof from one of the plurality of output clock paths of a logic tile in the second plurality, wherein the first and second external clock signals are the same clock signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Cheng C. Wang, Nitish U. Natu
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Publication number: 20190334526Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising an array of logic tiles, arranged in an array of rows and columns. The array of logic tiles includes a first logic tile to receive a first external clock signal wherein each logic tile of a first plurality of logic tiles generates the tile clock using (i) the first external clock signal or (ii) a delayed version thereof from one of the plurality of output clock paths of a logic tile in the first plurality, and a second logic tile to receive a second external clock signal wherein each logic tile of a second plurality of logic tiles generates the tile clock using (i) the second external clock signal or (ii) a delayed version thereof from one of the plurality of output clock paths of a logic tile in the second plurality, wherein the first and second external clock signals are the same clock signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Cheng C. Wang, Nitish U. Natu
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Publication number: 20190334527Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising (1) an array of logic tiles including a first and a second plurality of logic tiles, wherein each logic tile of the array is configurable to electrically connect with at least one other logic tile, and (2) a clock mesh fabric to provide a mesh clock signal to the first plurality of the logic tiles. Each logic tile of the first plurality includes clock distribution and transmission circuitry including: (1) tile clock generation circuitry configurable to generate a tile clock signal having a skew which is balanced with respect to the tile clock signals of each logic tile of the first plurality of logic tiles, and (2) clock selection circuitry configurable to receive the mesh clock signal and the tile clock signal and responsively output the tile clock to the circuitry which performs operations using or based on the associated tile clock.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nitish U. Natu, Abhijit M. Abhyankar, Cheng C. Wang
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Patent number: 10348307Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising an array of logic tiles, arranged in an array of rows and columns. The array of logic tiles includes a first logic tile to receive a first external clock signal wherein each logic tile of a first plurality of logic tiles generates the tile clock using (i) the first external clock signal or (ii) a delayed version thereof from one of the plurality of output clock paths of a logic tile in the first plurality, and a second logic tile to receive a second external clock signal wherein each logic tile of a second plurality of logic tiles generates the tile clock using (i) the second external clock signal or (ii) a delayed version thereof from one of the plurality of output clock paths of a logic tile in the second plurality, wherein the first and second external clock signals are the same clock signals.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Cheng C. Wang, Nitish U. Natu
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Patent number: 10348308Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising (i) an array of logic tiles wherein each logic tile is configurable to connect with at least one adjacent logic tile and (ii) a clock mesh fabric including a clock mesh to provide a mesh clock signal to each of the logic tiles of the array of logic tiles. In one embodiment, each logic tile of the array of logic tiles includes (1) distribution and transmission circuitry configurable to provide an associated tile clock to circuitry which performs operations using or based on the associated tile clock, wherein the distribution and transmission circuitry includes circuitry to generate a tile clock signal having a skew which is balanced with respect to the tile clock signals generated by the generation circuitry of each tile, and (2) selection circuitry to responsively output the associated tile clock which corresponds to the mesh clock signal or the tile clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nitish U. Natu, Abhijit M. Abhyankar, Cheng C. Wang
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Publication number: 20190007047Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising (i) an array of logic tiles wherein each logic tile is configurable to connect with at least one adjacent logic tile and (ii) a clock mesh fabric including a clock mesh to provide a mesh clock signal to each of the logic tiles of the array of logic tiles. In one embodiment, each logic tile of the array of logic tiles includes (1) distribution and transmission circuitry configurable to provide an associated tile clock to circuitry which performs operations using or based on the associated tile clock, wherein the distribution and transmission circuitry includes circuitry to generate a tile clock signal having a skew which is balanced with respect to the tile clock signals generated by the generation circuitry of each tile, and (2) selection circuitry to responsively output the associated tile clock which corresponds to the mesh clock signal or the tile clock signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Nitish U. Natu, Abhijit M. Abhyankar, Cheng C. Wang
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Publication number: 20180358970Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising an array of logic tiles, arranged in an array of rows and columns. The array of logic tiles includes a first logic tile to receive a first external clock signal wherein each logic tile of a first plurality of logic tiles generates the tile clock using (i) the first external clock signal or (ii) a delayed version thereof from one of the plurality of output clock paths of a logic tile in the first plurality, and a second logic tile to receive a second external clock signal wherein each logic tile of a second plurality of logic tiles generates the tile clock using (i) the second external clock signal or (ii) a delayed version thereof from one of the plurality of output clock paths of a logic tile in the second plurality, wherein the first and second external clock signals are the same clock signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Cheng C. Wang, Nitish U. Natu