US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on Feb. 10 for "Cluster-based placement and routing of memory units and compute units in a reconfigurable computing grid" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,581, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cluster-based placement and routing of memory units and compute units in a reconfigurable computing grid" was invented by Kin Hing Leung (Cupertino, Calif.), Feng Sheng (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ajit Punj (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing the placement and routing of compute units and memory units within a reconfigurable computing grid is disclosed. The method involves obtaining a hardware description of the computing grid, receiving a placement graph for a computing task, forming subgraphs for unplaced memory un...