US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on June 23 for "Systems and methods for fast-mapping of coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,041, issued on June 23, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for fast-mapping of coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays" was invented by Mahesh Balasubramanian (Tempe, Ariz.) and Aviral Shrivastava (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mapping approach ("PathSeeker") for CGRAs analyzes mapping failures and performs local adjustments to a schedule to obtain a mapping. First, instead of backtracking or restarting the mapping as in previous mapping methods, PathSeeker analyzes the predecessor and successor nodes to find the reason behind the failed mapping....