ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,696, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Achronix Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Sliced router for network on a chip" was invented by Pavan Kumar Kasibhatla (Bengaluru, India), Mohan Krishna Vedam (Bengaluru, India) and Kent Orthner (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliced router decomposes a router into a plurality of slices. Each slice has a subset of the input and output ports of the router. One or more of the slices may communicate with a network access point. Adjacent slices communicate with each other. In some example embodiments, there are dedicated physical channels between each slice and each ...