Patent ID: 9424079
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A system comprising: at least one computing device, the computing device comprising at least one processor and a computer readable media operably connected to the at least one processor; an accelerator associated with the at least one computing device; and an application programming interface (API) stored in the computer readable media and executed by the at least one processor to expose the accelerator for iterative dataflow, wherein iterative dataflow is controlled based at least on an iteration state representing a loop count or a predicate of a computation, the API including: a multiport configured to: an iterator port configured to: a scheduler configured to provide the datablock that was dequeued to the accelerator based at least on the iteration state, wherein the datablock that was dequeued includes a control code defining the control signals to control when the iteration begins or ends; and a module to specify a control-propagation pair that controls propagation of the control code received at a first port to a second port.