Memory calibration system and method
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243576
A method for performing stutter of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) where a system on a chip (SOC) initiates bursts of requests to the DRAM to fill buffers to allow the DRAM to self-refresh is disclosed. The method includes issuing, by a system management unit (SMU), a ForceZQCal command to the memory controller to initiate the stutter procedure in response to receiving a timeout request, such as an SMU ZQCal timeout request, periodically issuing a power platform threshold (PPT)…
Software compilation for networked processing system
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242828
A compilation technique is provided. The technique includes including a first instruction into a first executable for a first auxiliary processor, wherein the first instruction specifies execution by the first auxiliary processor; and including a second instruction into the first executable, wherein the second instruction targets resources that have affinity with the first auxiliary processor.
Apparatus, system, and method for conducting mission-mode testing on high-speed links
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242407
An exemplary data fabric device comprises a first traffic moderator configured to receive traffic destined for a specific endpoint accessible via a plurality of data paths and divert the traffic from a first data path included in the data paths to a second data path included in the data paths. The exemplary data fabric device also comprises a first interconnect controller that resides within the second data path and is configured to forward the traffic to the specific endpoint via a…
Compression aware prefetch
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242384
Methods, devices, and systems for prefetching data. First data is loaded from a first memory location. The first data in cached in a cache memory. Other data is prefetched to the cache memory based on a compression of the first data and a compression of the other data. In some implementations, the compression of the first data and the compression of the other data are determined based on metadata associated with the first data and metadata associated with the other data. In some…
Core activation and deactivation for a multi-core processor
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242325
Core activation and deactivation for a multi-core processor is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a processor having multiple cores operates using a first core configuration. A request to switch from the first core configuration to a second core configuration is received. Responsive to the request, a switch from the first core configuration to the second core configuration occurs by adjusting a number of active cores of the processor without rebooting.
Graphics discard engine
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236529
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a discard engine in a graphics pipeline are disclosed. A system includes a graphics pipeline with a geometry engine launching shaders that generate attribute data for vertices of each primitive of a set of primitives. The attribute data is consumed by pixel shaders, with each pixel shader generating a deallocation message when the pixel shader no longer needs the attribute data. A discard engine gathers deallocations from multiple pixel…
Circuit board with bridge chiplets
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12238872
Various circuit boards and methods of fabricating and using the same are disclosed. In one aspect, a circuit board is provided that has a substrate with a pocket and a conductor layer. A chiplet is positioned in the pocket. The chiplet has plural bottom side interconnects electrically connected to the conductor layer and plural top side interconnects adapted to interconnect with two or more semiconductor chips.
High-speed die connections using a conductive insert
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12237286
A semiconductor package for high-speed die connections using a conductive insert, the semiconductor package comprising: a die; a plurality of redistribution layers; a conductive insert housed in a perforation through the plurality of redistribution layers; and a conductive bump conductively coupled to an input/output (I/O) connection point of the die via the conductive insert.
Systems and methods for a compressed bitcell read-only memory
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12237026
The disclosed computer-implemented method relating to read-only memory can include (i) asserting a column select signal to select a particular column within a column mux read-only memory, (ii) forwarding, in response to asserting the column select signal, a bit value stored at that particular column to a gate of a transistor that connects a first stage local bitline to a second stage local bitline, and (iii) forwarding an inversion of the bit value to the second stage local bitline…
Device and method for image demosaicing
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236555
A method and processing device for image demosaicing is provided. The processing device comprises memory and a processor. The processor is configured to, for a pixel of a Bayer image which filters an acquired image using three color components, determine directional color difference weightings in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, determine a color difference between the first color component and the second color component and a color difference between the second color…
Bank-level parallelism for processing in memory
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236134
In accordance with the described techniques for bank-level parallelism for processing in memory, a plurality of commands are received for execution by a processing in memory component embedded in a memory. The memory includes a first bank and a second bank. The plurality of commands include a first stream of commands which cause the processing in memory component to perform operations that access the first bank and a second stream of commands which cause the processing in memory…
Ephemeral data management for cloud computing systems using computational fabric attached memory
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12236109
A cloud computing system includes cloud orchestrator circuitry and fabric manager circuitry. The cloud orchestrator circuitry receives an input application and determines a task graph, a data graph, and a function popularity heap parameter for the input application. The task graph comprises an indication of function interdependency of functions of the input application, the data graph comprises an indication of data interdependency of the functions, and the function popularity heap…
Approach for performing efficient memory operations using near-memory compute elements
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12235756
Near-memory compute elements perform memory operations and temporarily store at least a portion of address information for the memory operations in local storage. A broadcast memory command is then issued to the near-memory compute elements that causes the near-memory compute elements to perform a subsequent memory operation using their respective address information stored in the local storage. This allows a single broadcast memory command to be used to perform memory operations across…
Device and method for two-stage transitioning between reduced power states
Granted: February 25, 2025
Patent Number:
12235708
Devices and methods for cache prefetching are provided. A device is provided which comprises a quality of service (QOS) component having first assigned registers used to store data to execute a program, a plurality of non-QOS components having second assigned registers used to store data to execute the program and a power management controller, in communication with the QOS component and the non-QOS components. The power management controller is configured to issue fences for the non-QOS…
Apparatus, system, and method for improving latency or power consumption
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12231120
A disclosed method for improving latency or power consumption may include (i) receiving, at a power-state processing circuit, a power-state signal indicating whether a processing unit is entering a low-power-state, (ii) transmitting, in response to the power-state signal indicating that the processing unit is entering the low-power-state, a control signal from the power-state processing circuit to a latching circuit, and (iii) storing, by the latching circuit and in response to the…
Block data load with transpose into memory
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12229570
Block data load with transpose techniques are described. In one example, an input is received, at a control unit, specifying an instruction to load a block of data to at least one memory module using a transpose operation. Responsive to the receiving the input by the control unit, the block of data is caused to be loaded to the at least one memory module by transposing the block of data to form a transposed block of data and storing the transposed block of data in the at least one…
Split register list for renaming
Granted: February 18, 2025
Patent Number:
12229563
The disclosed system may include a processor configured to detect that a data unit size for an instruction is smaller than a register. The processor may allocate a first portion of the register to the instruction in a manner that leaves a second portion of the register available for allocating to an additional instruction. The processor may also track the register as a split register. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
Dynamic configuration of processor sub-components
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12222797
The disclosed method includes observing a utilization of a target sub-component of a functional unit of a processor using a control circuit coupled to the target sub-component. The method also includes detecting that the utilization is outside a desired utilization range and throttling one or more sub-components of the functional unit to reduce a power consumption of the functional unit. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
System and method for image banding detection
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12225299
A system for automatic image band detection includes concurrently capturing a first image of a scene with a first camera having a first exposure time and a second image of the scene with a second camera having a second exposure time. The system detects image banding for one of the first camera and the second camera based on the first image and the second image.
Methods and apparatus for providing mask register optimization for vector operations
Granted: February 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12223324
A data processing system includes a vector data processing unit that includes a shared scheduler queue configured to store in a same queue, at least one entry that includes at least a mask type instruction and another entry that includes at least a vector type instruction. Shared pipeline control logic controls a vector data path or a mask data path, based a type of instruction picked from the same queue. In some examples, at least one mask type instruction and the at least one vector…
