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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Blake D. Pelton, Redmond, WA (US);
Adrian Michael Caulfield, Woodinville, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A multi-threaded imperative programming language includes language constructs that map to circuit implementations. The constructs can include a condition statement that enables a thread in a hardware pipeline to wait for a specified condition to occur, identify the start and end of a portion of source code instructions that are to be executed atomically, or indicate that a read-modify-write memory operation is to be performed atomically. Source code that includes one or more constructs mapping to a circuit implementation can be compiled to generate a circuit description. The circuit description can be expressed using hardware description language (HDL), for instance. The circuit description can, in turn, be used to generate a synchronous digital circuit that includes the circuit implementation. For example, HDL might be utilized to generate an FPGA image or bitstream that can be utilized to program an FPGA that includes the circuit implementation associate with the language construct.