US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 8 for "Configuration of a deep vector engine using an opcode table, control table, and datapath table" (California, Vermont, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,732, issued on April 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Configuration of a deep vector engine using an opcode table, control table, and datapath table" was invented by Paul Gilbert Meyer (Nashville, Vt.), Ron Diamant (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sundeep Amirineni (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique to program a compute channel having multiple computational circuit blocks coupled in series in a pipeline can include receiving a machine instruction for the compute channel. The machine instruction is decoded to obtain an opcode, and the opcode can be used as an index to access an opcode entry i...