US Patent Issued to Konda Technologies on May 6 for "VLSI layouts of fully connected generalized networks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. RE50,417, issued on May 6, was assigned to Konda Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"VLSI layouts of fully connected generalized networks" was invented by Venkat Konda (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the invention, VLSI layouts of generalized multi-stage networks for broadcast, unicast and multicast connections are presented using only horizontal and vertical links. The VLSI layouts employ shuffle exchange links where outlet links of cross links from switches in a stage in one sub-integrated circuit block are connected to inlet links of switches in the succeeding stage in another sub-integrated circuit...