ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,134, issued on June 17, was assigned to ARTERIS INC. (Campbell, Calif.).
"Network-on-chip (NoC) with a broadcast switch system" was invented by John Coddington (Cedar Park, Texas) and Boon Chuan (Scotts Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods of use for a broadcast switch system, broadcast management switching system, and methods of use in network-on-chip are presented. The invention relates generally to broadcasting transactions in a network-on-chip (NoC). More specifically, and without limitation, the invention provides for transacting from master to multiple slaves and for receiving responses. The invent...