US Patent Issued to XILINX on April 8 for "Multi-die non-blocking crossbar switch" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,668, issued on April 8, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-die non-blocking crossbar switch" was invented by Ephrem Wu (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-blocking crossbar switch architecture circumvents the problem present in prior art crossbar switches where input signals may oversubscribe the available inter-die bandwidth. The new non-blocking crossbar switch architecture is split across a plurality of semiconductor dice, including a plurality of interleaved crossbar switch segments. Only one crossbar switch segment is implemented on each semiconductor die. A plurality of input ports and ou...