ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,775, issued on March 17, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"High-bandwidth power estimator" was invented by Junwei Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Youngmoon Choi (Milpitas, Calif.) and Jinuk Shin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) comprises an array of power base units (PBUs) organized in rows and columns. The IC further includes an array-level power accumulator that includes a power estimation unit (PEU) and two or more column power accumulators (CPAs) coupled with the PEU and the PBUs via dedicated wiring. Additionally, a power clock management controller (PCMC) is linke...