US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Dec. 2 for "Asynchronous on-chip network" (Nevada Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,964, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Asynchronous on-chip network" was invented by William James Dally (Incline Village, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-chip network (NoC) is a critical component of a GPU, CPU, network switch, or accelerator. The network nodes may be arranged in a two-dimensional array with each network node coupled to neighboring network nodes vertically and horizontally, with or without diagonal connections. Conventional routers within network nodes are synchronous, taking from 1-10 clock cycles to determine an output port, arbitrate between virtual and physical chann...