公开(公告)号：US20230027064A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-26

申请号：US17957235

申请日：2022-09-30

申请人： Martin Langhammer ,  Gregg William Baeckler ,  Sergey Vladimirovich Gribok ,  Mahesh A. Iyer

发明人： Martin Langhammer ,  Gregg William Baeckler ,  Sergey Vladimirovich Gribok ,  Mahesh A. Iyer

IPC分类号： G06F1/06 ,  G06F1/3237 ,  H03K19/00

摘要： Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide techniques for reducing power consumption of a large combinational circuit using register insertion. In particular, a large circuit may be analyzed to determine the amount of signal switching at various logical points (e.g., stages in the computation) of the circuit. A clock sequence with many pulses in the period of a clock that runs the large combinatorial circuit may be generated. To balance the amount of signal switching at various logical points in the circuit, registers may be inserted at certain points in the large circuit with the clock pulses of the clock sequence assigned to the registers that may not have a constant frequency or may be phase shifted versions of the main clock.

公开(公告)号：US09582686B1

公开(公告)日：2017-02-28

申请号：US11939032

申请日：2007-11-13

申请人： Martin Langhammer ,  Juju Joyce

发明人： Martin Langhammer ,  Juju Joyce

IPC分类号： G06F21/00 ,  G07C9/00 ,  G06F21/72 ,  G06Q20/34 ,  G06F21/76 ,  G06K19/073

CPC分类号： G06F21/72 ,  G06F21/76 ,  G06K19/07345 ,  G06Q20/341 ,  G06Q20/3558 ,  G06Q50/00

摘要： Methods, circuits, and apparatus are provided an FPGA user, ASIC designer, or the like the ability to program a unique ID per each circuit into a memory, such as a non-volatile one-time programmable memory bank on an FPGA. This unique ID is secure such that no one else can replicate it on another part, thus keeping it unique to the user for which it was intended. An encryption engine receives plaintext and produces the unique ID that is stored in memory that is designed to only be writeable through the encryption engine. Thus, the FPGA/ASIC designer can track who is the customer they sold this part to or who the last authorized user is.

摘要翻译： 方法，电路和装置为FPGA用户，ASIC设计者等提供将每个电路的唯一ID编程到诸如FPGA上的非易失性一次可编程存储器之类的存储器中的能力。 这个唯一的ID是安全的，使得没有其他人可以在另一部分上复制它，因此保持其对于其所期望的用户是唯一的。 加密引擎接收明文，并产生存储在存储器中的唯一ID，该唯一ID被设计为只能通过加密引擎写入。 因此，FPGA / ASIC设计人员可以跟踪谁销售这部分的客户是谁或最后授权的用户是谁。

公开(公告)号：US08886695B1

公开(公告)日：2014-11-11

申请号：US13545405

申请日：2012-07-10

申请人： Martin Langhammer

发明人： Martin Langhammer

IPC分类号： G06F7/38

CPC分类号： G06F7/49936 ,  G06F7/4876

摘要： A programmable integrated circuit device is programmed to normalize multiplication operations by examining the input or output values to determined the likelihood of overflow or underflow and then to adjust the input or output values accordingly. The examination of the inputs can include an examination of the number of adder stages feeding into the inputs, as well as a count of leading bits ahead of the first significant bit. Adjustment of an input can include shifting the mantissa by the leading bit count and adjusting the exponent accordingly, while adjustment of the output can include shifting the mantissa by the sum of the leading bit counts of the inputs and adjusting the exponent accordingly. Or the output can be examined to find its leading bit count and the output then can be adjusted by shifting the mantissa by the leading bit count and adjusting the exponent accordingly.

摘要翻译： 可编程集成电路器件被编程为通过检查输入或输出值来归一化乘法运算，以确定溢出或下溢的可能性，然后相应地调整输入或输出值。 对输入的检查可以包括对馈入馈入的加法器级数的检查以及在第一有效位之前的前导位的计数。 输入的调整可以包括将尾数移位前导位数并相应地调整指数，而输出的调整可以包括将尾数移位输入的前导位计数之和并相应地调整指数。 或者可以检查输出以查找其前导位计数，然后可以通过将尾数移位前导位计数并相应地调整指数来调整输出。

公开(公告)号：US08862650B2

公开(公告)日：2014-10-14

申请号：US13288685

申请日：2011-11-03

申请人： Martin Langhammer

发明人： Martin Langhammer

IPC分类号： G06F7/38 ,  G06F7/548 ,  G06F1/03 ,  G06F1/035 ,  G06F7/483

CPC分类号： G06F7/548 ,  G06F1/03 ,  G06F1/035 ,  G06F7/483 ,  G06F2101/04

摘要： Circuitry for computing a tangent function of an input value includes first look-up table circuitry that stores pre-calculated tangent values of a limited number of sample values, circuitry for inputting bits of the input value of most significance as inputs to the first look-up table circuitry to look up one of the pre-calculated tangent values as a first intermediate tangent value, circuitry for calculating a second intermediate tangent value from one or more ranges of remaining bits of the input value, and circuitry for combining the first intermediate tangent value and the second intermediate tangent value to yield the tangent function of the input value.

摘要翻译： 用于计算输入值的切线函数的电路包括第一查询表电路，其存储有限数量的采样值的预先计算的切线值，用于输入最重要的输入值的位的电路用作第一查找表的输入， 查找预先计算的正切值中的一个作为第一中间切线值的电路，用于从输入值的剩余位的一个或多个范围计算第二中间切线值的电路，以及用于组合第一中间切线 值和第二中间切线值，以产生输入值的切线函数。

公开(公告)号：US08812819B1

公开(公告)日：2014-08-19

申请号：US13212377

申请日：2011-08-18

申请人： Martin Langhammer ,  Kellie Marks

发明人： Martin Langhammer ,  Kellie Marks

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/142

摘要： Data signal items output by a radix 4n2m fast Fourier transform (“FFT”) operation may not be in the order desired for further use of those data items (e.g., they may be output in a non-natural order rather than in a desired natural order). Memory circuitry (e.g., dual-port memory circuitry) may be used in conjunction with circuitry for addressing the memory circuitry with address signals that are reordered in a particular way for each successive set of N data items. This allows use of memory circuitry with fewer data item storage locations than would otherwise be required to reorder the data items from non-natural to natural order. In particular, the memory circuitry only needs to be able to store N data items at any one time, which is more efficient memory utilization than would otherwise be possible.

摘要翻译： 通过基数4n2m快速傅立叶变换（“FFT”）操作输出的数据信号项可能不符合进一步使用这些数据项所需的顺序（例如，它们可以以非自然的顺序而不是以期望的自然顺序输出 订购）。 存储器电路（例如，双端口存储器电路）可以与电路一起使用，该电路用于以对于每个连续的N个数据项集合的特定方式重新排序的地址信号来寻址存储器电路。 这允许使用存储器电路与数据项存储位置相比，否则将重新排序数据项从非自然顺序到自然顺序。 特别地，存储器电路仅需要能够在任何一个时间存储N个数据项，这比其他情况下更有效的存储器利用。

公开(公告)号：US08788562B2

公开(公告)日：2014-07-22

申请号：US13042700

申请日：2011-03-08

申请人： Martin Langhammer ,  Kumara Tharmalingam

发明人： Martin Langhammer ,  Kumara Tharmalingam

IPC分类号： G06F7/52

CPC分类号： G06F7/52 ,  G06F7/5324

摘要： A plurality of specialized processing blocks in a programmable logic device, including multipliers and circuitry for adding results of those multipliers, can be configured as a larger multiplier by adding to the specialized processing blocks selectable circuitry for shifting multiplier results before adding. In one embodiment, this allows all but the final addition to take place in specialized processing blocks, with the final addition occurring in programmable logic. In another embodiment, additional compression and adding circuitry allows even the final addition to occur in the specialized processing blocks.

摘要翻译： 可编程逻辑器件中的多个专用处理块，包括用于将这些乘法器的结果相加的乘法器和电路的多个专用处理块可以被配置为较大的乘法器，通过将添加到专用处理块的可选择电路来移位乘法器结果。 在一个实施例中，这允许在专门的处理块中进行除最终添加之外的所有添加，最后的加法发生在可编程逻辑中。 在另一个实施例中，附加的压缩和加法电路甚至允许在专门的处理块中发生最后的添加。

公开(公告)号：US08645712B1

公开(公告)日：2014-02-04

申请号：US11261155

申请日：2005-10-27

申请人： Martin Langhammer

发明人： Martin Langhammer

IPC分类号： H04L9/14

CPC分类号： H04L9/0841 ,  H04L9/0866 ,  H04L9/0869 ,  H04L2209/605

摘要： An electronic device takes the form of a programmable logic device, including logic resources whose functions and interconnections are dependent on the configuration information applied to the device. Each such electronic device is provided with a unique identifier. In order to implement a design of an electronic circuit on an electronic device, the configuration information that is required to cause the device to perform its desired function is encrypted before being applied to the device, and is decrypted on the device itself. The encryption process, and hence the required decryption, are based on the identifier, and hence are effectively unique to the particular device, so that the intended design can be implemented only by means of configuration information that is related to the unique identifier, and the configuration information cannot be applied to other devices to make unauthorized configured devices.

摘要翻译： 电子设备采用可编程逻辑器件的形式，包括其功能和互连取决于应用于器件的配置信息的逻辑资源。 每个这样的电子设备被提供有唯一的标识符。 为了在电子设备上实现电子电路的设计，使得设备执行其所需功能所需的配置信息在应用于设备之前被加密，并且在设备本身上被解密。 加密过程，因此所需的解密基于标识符，因此对于特定设备是有效的，因此预期的设计只能通过与唯一标识符相关的配置信息来实现，并且 配置信息不能应用于其他设备进行未经授权的配置设备。

公开(公告)号：US08621331B1

公开(公告)日：2013-12-31

申请号：US13152438

申请日：2011-06-03

申请人： Martin Langhammer

发明人： Martin Langhammer

IPC分类号： H03M13/00

CPC分类号： H03M13/152 ,  H03M13/1545 ,  H03M13/6561

摘要： Circuitry for, in p parallel streams, searching a codeword having n symbols for roots of a cyclic code polynomial having a number of terms includes a plurality of multipliers, a source of constants derived from roots of the polynomial, and at least one counter that supplies an index. For each received symbol of the codeword, the multipliers multiply respective terms of the polynomial for a previous received symbol by constants from the source of constants, the counter advances to select respective products of the constants and the respective terms for the previous received symbol.

公开(公告)号：US08615543B1

公开(公告)日：2013-12-24

申请号：US13166119

申请日：2011-06-22

申请人： Leon Zheng ,  Martin Langhammer ,  Steven Perry ,  Paul Metzgen ,  Nitin Prasad ,  William Hwang

发明人： Leon Zheng ,  Martin Langhammer ,  Steven Perry ,  Paul Metzgen ,  Nitin Prasad ,  William Hwang

IPC分类号： G06F7/38

CPC分类号： G06F7/49921 ,  G06F7/49947 ,  G06F7/523 ,  G06F7/5443

摘要： Saturation and rounding capabilities are implemented in MAC blocks to provide rounded and saturated outputs of multipliers and of add-subtract-accumulate circuitrs implemented using DSP. These features support any suitable format of value representation, including the x.15 format. Circuitry within the multipliers and the add-subtract-accumulate circuits implement the rounding and saturation features of the present invention.

摘要翻译： 饱和度和舍入能力在MAC块中实现，以提供乘法器的舍入和饱和输出以及使用DSP实现的加减累加电路。 这些功能支持任何合适的价值表示形式，包括x.15格式。 乘法器和加减累积电路内的电路实现了本发明的舍入和饱和特征。

公开(公告)号：US08589463B2

公开(公告)日：2013-11-19

申请号：US12823539

申请日：2010-06-25

申请人： Martin Langhammer

发明人： Martin Langhammer

IPC分类号： G06F7/38

CPC分类号： G06F7/548 ,  G06F1/03 ,  G06F7/483 ,  G06F7/5446 ,  G06F2101/04

摘要： Circuitry for computing a trigonometric function of an input includes circuitry for relating the input to another value to generate an intermediate value, circuitry for selecting one of the input and the intermediate value as a trigonometric input value, circuitry for determining respective initial values of a plurality of trigonometric functions for the trigonometric input value, and circuitry for deriving, based at least in part on a trigonometric identity, a final value of the first trigonometric function from the respective initial values of the plurality of trigonometric functions. The trigonometric function may be any of sine, cosine and tangent and their inverse functions. The trigonometric identities used allow a computation of a trigonometric function to be broken into pieces that either are easier to perform or can be performed more accurately.

摘要翻译： 用于计算输入的三角函数的电路包括用于将输入与另一值相关以产生中间值的电路，用于选择输入和中间值之一作为三角输入值的电路，用于确定多个的相应初始值的电路 用于三角输入值的三角函数的电路，以及用于至少部分地基于三角形标识从多个三角函数的相应初始值推导出第一三角函数的最终值的电路。 三角函数可以是任何正弦，余弦和正切以及它们的反函数。 所使用的三角形身份允许将三角函数的计算分解成更容易执行或可以更准确地执行的片段。