Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network processor FPGA (npFPGA): multi-die FPGA chip for scalable multi-gigabit network processing
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Application No.: US13921364Application Date: 2013-06-19
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Publication No.: US09886072B1Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Krishnan Venkataraman
- Applicant: Altera Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: ALTERA CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: ALTERA CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Fletcher Yoder P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F1/32
- IPC: G06F1/32

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for reducing power consumption of a multi-die device, such as a network processor FPGA (npFPGA). The multi-die device may include hardware resources such as FPGA dies, which may be coupled to NIC dies and/or memory dies. Power consumption of the multi-die device may be reduced by monitoring usage of hardware resources in the multi-die device, identifying hardware resources that are not in use, and gating power to the identified hardware resources. The status of processing elements (PEs) in the multi-die device may be tracked in a PE state table. Based on the PE state table, tasks from a task queue may be assigned to one or more processing elements.
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