Microsoft Patents

Hardware Accelerators

Microsoft filed these patents around Hardware Accelerators in the last 5 years

# Patent No. Short Description
1. US10911031B2 Superconducting circuits that can process input signals with variable data rates without requiring a DC offset
2. US11340985B2 A data processing unit (DPU) with specialized hardware accelerators to efficiently process data streams like network packets or storage packets
3. US11405179B2 High-throughput data processing unit for efficiently processing streams of information like network packets or storage packets
4. US10999084B2 Leveraging remote direct memory access (RDMA) to enable full packet capture at line rate without CPU bottleneck
5. US11309908B2 Hardware-based data compression accelerator for network and storage devices that enables efficient compression of data payloads
6. US20230196085A1 Training neural networks using quantized floating-point formats to improve performance on low-power hardware like FPGAs
7. US20190286973A1 Accelerating neural network processing by partitioning models into subgraphs that can be executed on specialized hardware accelerators
8. US11593138B2 A server design that offloads hypervisor functions from the CPU complex to a dedicated offload card with a SoC and FPGA
9. US10645187B2 A specialized data processing unit for network and storage devices that offloads tasks from general purpose processors to improve performance and efficiency
10. US10827191B2 A data processing unit (DPU) with specialized hardware accelerators to improve network and storage performance
11. US10691413B2 Using reduced bit-width block floating point vectors to improve the accuracy of neural networks while reducing computational requirements
12. US11256644B2 A data processing unit (DPU) that can dynamically reconfigure its PCIe interface between root complex (RC) and endpoint (EP) modes without requiring a reboot
13. US10990478B2 Efficiently processing a series of work units in a multiple core processor system by using specialized hardware accelerators
14. US10785020B2 Hardware offloading for QUIC transport protocol to improve performance
15. US11042501B2 Reducing latency of replicated transactions in distributed storage systems by offloading work from CPUs to network interface cards (NICs)

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