Patent ID: 11921559
Assignee: GROQ, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 18:
19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon executable instructions, which when executed by a computer processor cause the computer processor to:
route a power supply grid of metal traces across a first spatial dimension and a second spatial dimension orthogonal to the first spatial dimension for supplying power to a plurality of functional slices of the processor and a plurality of instruction control units (ICUs) of the processor; and
route at least a portion of the metal traces as discontinuous stubs along the first spatial dimension or the second spatial dimension, wherein
a plurality of data transport lanes of the processor are configured to transport data across the functional slices along the first spatial dimension, and
an instruction in each subset of the ICUs comprises a functional slice specific operation code and is configured for transportation to a corresponding functional slice along the second spatial dimension.