US Patent Issued to XILINX on Sept. 8 for "Dataflow graph programming environment for a heterogenous processing system" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,617, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dataflow graph programming environment for a heterogenous processing system" was invented by Shail Aditya Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Samuel R. Bayliss (Mountain View, Calif.), Vinod Kathail (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ralph D. Wittig (Menlo Park, Calif.), Philip B. James-Roxby (Longmont, Colo.) and Akella Sastry (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples herein describe techniques for generating dataflow graphs using source code for defining kernels and communication links between those kernels. In one embodiment, the graph is formed using nodes (e.g., ke...