Some interesting new find ( patent finding thread )

[Panajev2001a]

http://makeashorterlink.com/?X336122A6

Now...

An electronic device is provided on which semiconductor packages can be mounted efficiently. The electronic device includes a board that can receive a plurality of first semiconductor packages each carrying a processor device and a plurality of second semiconductor packages each carrying a memory device. Mount regions where the packages are to be mounted and non-mount regions are alternately arranged in rows and columns on the board. This ensures approximately equal wiring distances between the packages, allowing processor devices to access associated memory devices at the same time.

Masaaki Oka is one of the SCE engineers who have their names on the Emotion Engine patents.

He is on the level of the Masakazu Suzuoki we have seen a "certain" patent coming from

This patent was filed in Japan originally in October 2001 so it is not exactly old

 

[DeadmeatGA]

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Looks like an MCM-like device to me.

There you have it, the teraflop CELL really is an MCM with 16~32 chips.

Can you see the 2 TFLOPS module for workstation in Kutaragi's presentation? That's what this patent is describing.

 

[Panajev2001a]

http://makeashorterlink.com/?W5A6232A6

This guy is from Toshiba's Microprocessor division who also worked on the Emotion Engine.

A multiprocessor system according to the present invention, comprises a plurality of calculation processors which execute tasks by using data stored in a memory; and a control processor which controls execution of the tasks by said calculation processors; wherein said control processor includes: a dependency relation checking part which checks a dependency relation between a plurality of data when executing the tasks; and a scheduling part which performs access to said memory, data transfer from said memory to said calculation processor, and calculation scheduling in said calculation processors.

Now... what does that sounds like ?

 

[Panajev2001a]

Re: ...

Looks like an MCM-like device to me.

There you have it, the teraflop CELL really is an MCM with 16~32 chips.

Lured in, I see

I suggest you to wait... whatever it will be, the Broadband Engine will come ( you know what chip was called the Broadband Engine in the patent from Suzuoki right ? )... as confirmed in the Rambus-SCE-Toshiba deal.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Re: ...

Looks like an MCM-like device to me.

There you have it, the teraflop CELL really is an MCM with 16~32 chips.

Can you see the 2 TFLOPS module for workstation in Kutaragi's presentation? That's what this patent is describing.

Great, we will see 0.5-1 TFLOPS in PlayStation 3 then, thanks

( Using your same kind of reasoning )

Keep on commenting about the Broadband Engine... a server "only" chip and then it is the main deal between Rambus, SCE and Toshiba ?

 

[Panajev2001a]

http://makeashorterlink.com/?D2B7522A6

Of This patent, Fig.7 seems pretty interesting ( note this was filed originally in 1999-2000 ).

Multiple sub-processors in one core, multiple cores per chip... it does reminds us of something cellular like

This also relates to something we heard from IBM about CELL and cellular architecture being thought as "very" suitable for real-time Ray-Tracing purposes.

 

[V3]

I am not on my PC, is there a free png viewer for IE ?

 

[ChryZ]

I am not on my PC, is there a free png viewer for IE ?

Sure, it's called Mozilla Firebird

 

[V3]

Thanks, but isn't that a full blown browser ? I just need a plug-in for Internet Explorer to view png. This is not my PC, so I am not too sure my cousin will want that in his PC.

 

[ChryZ]

Thanks, but isn't that a full blown browser ? I just need a plug-in for Internet Explorer to view png. This is not my PC, so I am not too sure my cousin will want that in his PC.

Yes it is ... I was just kidding. Anyway Firebird is small and you don't have to "install" it, just unzip and start it ... later on, just remove the folder and the whole thing is gone.

 

[Simon F]

I am not on my PC, is there a free png viewer for IE ?

Did you really mean "png"? (I believe that's already in IE except for the fact they b&ll&xed the alpha).

The USPTO tends to use Group4 TIFF in which case I strongly recommend the Alternatiff plugin.


Hmmm. It's only an application (and to be honest I was struggling to see what was novel about it) and it looks like a translation of a Japanese patent/patent application. (The paragraph numbers are a bit of a giveaway).

 

[V3]

Thanks SimonF,

Yeah its TIFF, I got png in my head, since I remember IE used not to support it. So when the pic didn't show up, png pop into my head. Silly me

 

[Panajev2001a]

Simon, I posted 3 links, each leads to a different patent.

Also, I am not trying to show what marvellous NEW approach never seen before they are implementing, but rather how these patents ( all these people have their name on quite fundamental work on the Emotion Engine [both on the SCE and the Toshiba groups] ) fit in the big picture of the technology STI and separately Sony, Toshiba and IBM are working on ( STI CELL ) and experiments along the way ( that we can maybe relate to it ).