US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Feb. 17 for "Self-contained and configurable debugging mechanism for stream-based hardware accelerators" (Italian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,605, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Self-contained and configurable debugging mechanism for stream-based hardware accelerators" was invented by Antonio De Vita (Milan), David Siorpaes (Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy), Thomas Boesch (Rovio, Switzerland) and Giuseppe Desoli (San Fermo Della Battaglia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware accelerator includes a plurality of functional circuits, a stream switch, a plurality of direct memory access (DMA) channels coupled to the plurality of functional circuits via the stream switch to stream data to and from functional circuits of ...