US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on Jan. 28 for "Head of line blocking mitigation in a reconfigurable data processor" (Texas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,857, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Head of line blocking mitigation in a reconfigurable data processor" was invented by Manish K. Shah (Austin, Texas) and John Philipp Baxley (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coarse-grained reconfigurable (CGR) processor comprises a first network and a second network; a plurality of agents coupled to the first network; an array of CGR units coupled together by the second network; and a tile agent coupled between the first network and the second network. The tile agent comprises a plurality of links, a plurality of credit counters associ...