US Patent Issued to Google on April 22 for "Connecting non-PCIe accelerators as PCIe devices" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,444, issued on April 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Connecting non-PCIe accelerators as PCIe devices" was invented by Yiftach Benjamini (Givat Elah, Israel), Jonathan Charles Masters (Boston) and Henrietta Bezbroz (Or Akiva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally disclosed herein is an approach for enabling the connection of non-PCIe accelerators as PCIe devices using a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) abstraction layer ("PAL"). Once the operating system accesses and configures any on-SoC devices and accelerators using standard PCIe APIs, all PCIe configuration transactions may be rou...