US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on July 22 for "Network-on-chip system and a method of generating the same" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,684, issued on July 22, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Network-on-chip system and a method of generating the same" was invented by Ravi Venugopalan (Dublin, Calif.), Sandeep Kumar Goel (Dublin, Calif.) and Yun-Han Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network-on-chip (NoC) system includes a default communication path between a master device and a slave device, and a backup communication path between the master device and the slave device. The default communication path is configured to work in a normal operation state of the chip. The backup communication pat...