Patents by Inventor Shane O'Connell

Shane O'Connell 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: 12455722
    Abstract: Circuitry for decomposing block floating-point numbers into lower precision floating-point numbers is provided. The circuitry may include a high precision storage circuit configured to provide high precision floating-point numbers, input selectors configured to receive the high precision floating-point numbers from the high precision storage circuit and to generate corresponding lower precision floating-point components with adjusted exponents, and a low precision block floating-point vector circuit configured to combine the various lower precision floating-point components generated by the input selectors. The lower precision floating-point components may be processed spatially or over multiple iterations over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Roberto DiCecco, Joshua Fender, Shane O'Connell
  • Publication number: 20250123801
    Abstract: Circuitry for decomposing block floating-point numbers into lower precision floating-point numbers is provided. The circuitry may include a high precision storage circuit configured to provide high precision floating-point numbers, input selectors configured to receive the high precision floating-point numbers from the high precision storage circuit and to generate corresponding lower precision floating-point components with adjusted exponents, and a low precision block floating-point vector circuit configured to combine the various lower precision floating-point components generated by the input selectors. The lower precision floating-point components may be processed spatially or over multiple iterations over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Roberto DiCecco, Joshua Fender, Shane O'Connell
  • Patent number: 12197887
    Abstract: Circuitry for decomposing block floating-point numbers into lower precision floating-point numbers is provided. The circuitry may include a high precision storage circuit configured to provide high precision floating-point numbers, input selectors configured to receive the high precision floating-point numbers from the high precision storage circuit and to generate corresponding lower precision floating-point components with adjusted exponents, and a low precision block floating-point vector circuit configured to combine the various lower precision floating-point components generated by the input selectors. The lower precision floating-point components may be processed spatially or over multiple iterations over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Roberto DiCecco, Joshua Fender, Shane O'Connell
  • Publication number: 20240126506
    Abstract: Circuitry for decomposing block floating-point numbers into lower precision floating-point numbers is provided. The circuitry may include a high precision storage circuit configured to provide high precision floating-point numbers, input selectors configured to receive the high precision floating-point numbers from the high precision storage circuit and to generate corresponding lower precision floating-point components with adjusted exponents, and a low precision block floating-point vector circuit configured to combine the various lower precision floating-point components generated by the input selectors. The lower precision floating-point components may be processed spatially or over multiple iterations over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Roberto DiCecco, Joshua Fender, Shane O'Connell
  • Publication number: 20200218508
    Abstract: Circuitry for decomposing block floating-point numbers into lower precision floating-point numbers is provided. The circuitry may include a high precision storage circuit configured to provide high precision floating-point numbers, input selectors configured to receive the high precision floating-point numbers from the high precision storage circuit and to generate corresponding lower precision floating-point components with adjusted exponents, and a low precision block floating-point vector circuit configured to combine the various lower precision floating-point components generated by the input selectors. The lower precision floating-point components may be processed spatially or over multiple iterations over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Roberto DiCecco, Joshua Fender, Shane O'Connell
  • Patent number: 10083007
    Abstract: Devices and methods for filtering data include calculating intermediate input values from input elements using a transformation function. The transformation function is based at least in part on a size of the filter and a number of filter outputs. Intermediate filter values are calculated from filter elements of the filter using the transformation function. Each intermediate input value is multiplied with a respective intermediate filter value to form intermediate values. These intermediate values are combined with each other using the transformation function to determine one or more output values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: ALTERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Utku Aydonat, Andrew Chaang Ling, Gordon Raymond Chiu, Shane O'Connell
  • Publication number: 20180074787
    Abstract: Devices and methods for filtering data include calculating intermediate input values from input elements using a transformation function. The transformation function is based at least in part on a size of the filter and a number of filter outputs. Intermediate filter values are calculated from filter elements of the filter using the transformation function. Each intermediate input value is multiplied with a respective intermediate filter value to form intermediate values. These intermediate values are combined with each other using the transformation function to determine one or more output values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Utku Aydonat, Andrew Chaang Ling, Gordon Raymond Chiu, Shane O'Connell
  • Patent number: 9811484
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for rapid interrupt look-ups for interrupts stored in memory. One embodiment relates to a method for providing interrupt lookups for a plurality of interrupt status vectors stored in random access memory on an integrated circuit. The plurality of interrupt status vectors in the random access memory are scanned to find activated interrupt status vectors that changed from null to non-null and dismissed interrupt status vectors that changed from non-null to null. A linked search list is maintained in the random access memory by inserting memory addresses of the activated interrupt status vectors into the linked search list and removing memory addresses of the dismissed interrupt status vectors from the linked search list. Interrupt status vectors for currently active interrupts are looked-up by transversing the linked search list in the random access memory. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Shane O'Connell