US Patent Issued to Altera on Aug. 25 for "Method and apparatus to enable CPU host-unaware dynamic FPGA reconfiguration" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,992, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus to enable CPU host-unaware dynamic FPGA reconfiguration" was invented by Rahul Pal (Bangalore, India), Ashish Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Gary Wallichs (San Jose, Calif.) and Sreedhar Ravipalli (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to enabling operation of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) while preventing application quiescence during FPGA reconfiguration. In embodiments of the disclosure, proxy agent firmware may enable downstream transactions (e.g., PCIe transactions) to be serviced durin...