Japanse boffin sues Intel

Stefan Mileschin · 30th June 2022, 07:44

It nicked FPGA SoC chips that use ALM and my other acronyms

Japanese boffin Masahiro Iida is incandesnant with rage that Intel has borrowed his idea for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and System-on-Chip (SoC) chips that employ Adaptive Logic Modules (ALM).

Iida sued Intel for infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,812,737 which he has held from 2004 to 2014 after having a brilliant idea as a doctoral student back in 2001.

He thought it would be a wizard idea to configure large look up tables (LUTs) so that a single M-input N-output LUT can operate as a single “whole” LUT or as a group of “fractured” LUTs.

His discovery reportedly helped substantially reduce the implementation area and power consumption for chips that used the innovation.

https://fudzilla.com/news/55070-japa...fin-sues-intel

30th June 2022, 07:44	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,541	Japanse boffin sues Intel It nicked FPGA SoC chips that use ALM and my other acronyms Japanese boffin Masahiro Iida is incandesnant with rage that Intel has borrowed his idea for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and System-on-Chip (SoC) chips that employ Adaptive Logic Modules (ALM). Iida sued Intel for infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,812,737 which he has held from 2004 to 2014 after having a brilliant idea as a doctoral student back in 2001. He thought it would be a wizard idea to configure large look up tables (LUTs) so that a single M-input N-output LUT can operate as a single “whole” LUT or as a group of “fractured” LUTs. His discovery reportedly helped substantially reduce the implementation area and power consumption for chips that used the innovation. https://fudzilla.com/news/55070-japa...fin-sues-intel

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