US Patent Issued to ARTERIS on Oct. 7 for "System and method for deadlock detection in network-on-chip (NoC) having external dependencies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,829, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ARTERIS INC. (Campbell, Calif.).

"System and method for deadlock detection in network-on-chip (NoC) having external dependencies" was invented by Benoit de Lescure (Campbell, Calif.) and Moez Cherif (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Design of a network-on-chip (NoC) includes searching for a potential deadlock in a topology of the NoC, where the potential deadlock is caused by an external dependency in which input of data into the NoC is dependent on output of data from the NoC. The NoC design further includes modifying the NoC topology to resolve the potential deadlock."

The pat...