US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Feb. 3 for "Energy-minimal dataflow architecture with programmable on-chip network" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,349, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"Energy-minimal dataflow architecture with programmable on-chip network" was invented by Brandon Lucia (Pittsburgh), Nathan Beckmann (Pittsburgh) and Graham Gobieski (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a co-designed compiler and CGRA architecture that achieves both high programmability and extreme energy efficiency. The architecture includes a rich set of control-flow operators that support arbitrary control flow and memory access on the CGRA fabric. The architecture is able to realize both energy and area savings over prior art ...