US Patent Issued to Altera on Sept. 8 for "Programmable logic device with integrated network-on-chip" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,472, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Programmable logic device with integrated network-on-chip" was invented by Michael David Hutton (Mountain View, Calif.), Herman Henry Schmit (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dana How (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a Network-On-Chip (NoC) structure on an integrated circuit for high-speed data passing. In some aspects, the NoC structure includes multiple NoC stations with a hard-IP interface having a bidirectional connection to local components of the integrated circuit. In some aspects, the NoC stations have a soft-IP ...