PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936350
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["716", "102000"]

Abstract:
A NoC topology is represented on top of a physical view of a chip's floorplan. The NoC topology is edited, such as by adding switches, removing switches, and adding and removing switches on routes. An initial location of switches within the floorplan is automatically computed. Locations can also be edited by a user. Statistical metrics are calculated, including wire length, switch area, NoC area, and maximum signal propagation delay for logic in each of multiple clock domains. Wire density can also be overlaid on chip's floorplan on the display. The NoC topology is represented by a data structure indicating connections between initiator and target endpoints with ordered lists of switches in between. The data structures are written and read from memory or a non-transient computer readable medium. The locations of endpoint and switches are also written out, as scripts for place & route tools.

Claim (Index 18):
A method of using at least one non-transitory computer readable medium having code that, when executed by at least one processor, would cause the at least one processor to:\n determine connectivity between elements of a Network-on-Chip (NoC) to represent a NoC topology in a graphic view through a graphical user interface, the elements being connected by a plurality of lines; display, on the graphical user interface, a physical floorplan and, simultaneously display, on the graphical user interface, the NoC topology on top of the physical floorplan; accept user commands including altering a set of routes, which is shown in the graphical user interface, to change the route that a packet takes from source to destination resulting in a change to the NoC topology to produce an edited NoC topology; and provide immediate feedback to the user regarding consequences of editing the NoC topology on performance and the ability to implement the edited NoC topology.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79121
- Patent Class: 716.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14975844', '13436944', '14722046', '14789409', '14789401']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3540051550071741
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.563514740167756
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3749561135232323
- Mean Citation Score: 248.108894
- Max Citation Score: 480.6039
- Similarity Product: 428.4920056844831

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test