US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on Nov. 4 for "Multiple contexts for a memory unit in a reconfigurable data processor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,778, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multiple contexts for a memory 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 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 including an array of pattern compute units (PCUs) and pattern memory units (PMUs). A PCU is ...