US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Aug. 25 for "Macro placement in continuous action space using an artificial intelligence approach" (Taiwanese, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,093, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Macro placement in continuous action space using an artificial intelligence approach" was invented by Da-Shan Shiu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Alexandru Cioba (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Fu-Chieh Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network (NN) performs macro placement on a chip. A mask is updated to mark invalid regions occupied by already-placed macros on a chip canvas. A policy network of the NN generates summary statistics of a two-dimensional (2D) continuous probability distribution over a continuous action space for a g...