US Patent Issued to Xilinx on Jan. 27 for "Programmable data movement processor for collective communication offload" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,036, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Programmable data movement processor for collective communication offload" was invented by Lucian Petrica (Dublin) and Kenneth O'Brien (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a network-on-chip (NoC). The system includes a protocol offload engine coupled to the NoC. The protocol offload engine is configured to generate packets of data for a selected protocol. The system includes a data movement processor coupled to the network-on-chip. The data movement processor is configured to receive a microcode instruction and, in response to the microcode i...