US Patent Issued to Xilinx on Sept. 2 for "Firewalling communication ports in a multi-port system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,652, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Firewalling communication ports in a multi-port system" was invented by Chandrasekhar S. Thyamagondlu (Saratoga, Calif.), Akhil Krishnan (San Jose, Calif.) and Darren Jue (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Handling port resets in a multi-port system includes monitoring, using a plurality of firewall circuits, a plurality of controllers corresponding to different communication ports for a reset condition. The plurality of controllers are coupled to a direct memory access (DMA) system through a plurality of bridge circuits. A selected firewall circu...