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).

  • Publication number: 20230131459
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Cheng C. Wang, Fang-Li Yuan, Nitish U. Natu
  • Publication number: 20200401414
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, Cheng C. Wang, Fang-Li Yuan, Nitish U. Natu
  • Patent number: 10686448
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitish U. Natu, Abhijit M. Abhyankar, Cheng C. Wang
  • Patent number: 10587271
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng C. Wang, Nitish U. Natu
  • Publication number: 20190334526
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng C. Wang, Nitish U. Natu
  • Publication number: 20190334527
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitish U. Natu, Abhijit M. Abhyankar, Cheng C. Wang
  • Patent number: 10348307
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng C. Wang, Nitish U. Natu
  • Patent number: 10348308
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitish U. Natu, Abhijit M. Abhyankar, Cheng C. Wang
  • Publication number: 20190007047
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitish U. Natu, Abhijit M. Abhyankar, Cheng C. Wang
  • Publication number: 20180358970
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Flex Logix Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng C. Wang, Nitish U. Natu