ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,863, issued on March 3, was assigned to Achronix Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Fused memory and arithmetic circuit" was invented by Daniel Pugh (Los Gatos, Calif.), Raymond Nijssen (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Philip Fitton (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tile of an FPGA fuses memory and arithmetic circuits. Connections directly between multiple instances of the tile are also available, allowing multiple tiles to be treated as larger memories or arithmetic circuits. By using these connections, referred to as cascade inputs and outputs, the input and output bandwidth of the arithmetic circuit is fu...