ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,076, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Inline configuration processor" was invented by Ahmad R. Ansari (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) device includes functional circuitry and distributed management circuitry that includes multiple configuration interface manager (CIM) circuits that receive respective programming partitions as configuration packets over a first communication channel (e.g., a network-on-chip, or NoC), and perform management operations on respective regions of the functional circuitry in parallel with one another based on the respective confi...