US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on June 17 for "Differential pipeline delays in a coprocessor" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,309, issued on June 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Differential pipeline delays in a coprocessor" was invented by Jay Fleischman (Fort Collins, Colo.), Michael Estlick (Fort Collins, Colo.), Michael Christopher Sedmak (Fort Collins, Colo.), Erik Swanson (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Sneha V. Desai (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coprocessor such as a floating-point unit includes a pipeline that is partitioned into a first portion and a second portion. A controller is configured to provide control signals to the first portion and the second portion of the pipeline. A first phy...