US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on May 27 for "Multiple contexts for a compute unit in a reconfigurable data processor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,754, issued on May 27, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multiple contexts for a compute unit in a reconfigurable data processor" was invented by Raghu Prabhakar (San Jose, Calif.), Ram Sivaramakrishnan (San Jose, Calif.), David Brian Jackson (Dana Point, Calif.) and Pramod Nataraja (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system includes a coarse-grained reconfigurable (CGR) processor and a compiler configured to generate one or more configuration files for an application for execution on the CGR processor. The CGR processor includes an array of pattern compute units (PCUs) and pa...