US Patent Issued to Google on April 29 for "Direct memory access architecture with multi-level multi-striding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,745, issued on April 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Direct memory access architecture with multi-level multi-striding" was invented by Mark William Gottscho (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew William Ashcraft (San Carlos, Calif.), Thomas Norrie (Mountain View, Calif.) and Oliver Edward Bowen (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "DMA architectures capable of performing multi-level multi-striding and determining multiple memory addresses in parallel are described. In one aspect, a DMA system includes one or more hardware DMA threads. Each DMA thread includes a request generator configured to genera...