Integrated circuit assemblies with direct chip attach to circuit boards
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170273
Various aspects of the present disclosure set forth IC dies, microelectronic assemblies, as well as related devices and packages, related to direct chip attach of dies and circuit boards. An example microelectronic assembly includes a die with IC components provided over the die's frontside, and a metallization stack provided over the die's backside. The die further includes die interconnects extending between the frontside and the backside of the die, to electrically couple the IC…
Uniform layouts for SRAM and register file bit cells
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12171090
Uniform layouts for SRAM and register file bit cells are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a six transistor (6T) static random access memory (SRAM) bit cell on a substrate. The 6T SRAM bit cell includes first and second active regions parallel along a first direction of the substrate. First, second, third and fourth gate lines are over the first and second active regions, the first, second, third and fourth gate lines parallel along a second direction of…
Early releasing uplink retransmission memory based upon prediction of uplink retransmission indicator
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170969
In accordance with various embodiments, an electron beam evaporator can comprise the following: a tubular target; an electron beam gun for producing at least one vapor source on a removal surface of the tubular target by means of an electron beam; wherein the removal surface is a ring-shaped axial end surface or a surface of the tubular target that extends conically or in a curved fashion from the free end edge.
Link bandwidth improvement techniques
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170797
One embodiment provides a video transport system. The video transport system includes graphics processing circuitry to generate a video transport unit (TU) corresponding to a scan line of a first video frame that is unchanged from a second video frame, wherein the video TU includes a control sequence and an unchanged data payload corresponding to a defined number of pixels of the scan line of the first video frame. The video transport system of this embodiment also includes source…
Technology to accelerate scene change detection and achieve adaptive content display
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170778
Systems, apparatuses and methods may include a source device that generates a scene change notification in response to a movement of a camera, modifies an encoding scheme associated with the video content captured by the camera in response to the scene change notification, identifies a full-frame difference threshold, wherein scene analysis information includes frame difference data, and compares the frame difference data to an intermediate threshold that is less than the full-frame…
Apparatus for providing a connection to a wide area network for voice calls, a power management circuit, and a method for providing a connection to a wide area network for voice calls
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170744
An apparatus for providing a connection to a wide area network for voice calls includes a wide area network circuit configured to transmit voice call data packets, a phone connection circuit configured to receive a voice call signal from a phone, a processor circuit configured to generate voice call data packets based on a voice call signal received by the phone connection circuit and a power management circuit configured to switch off at least a part of the apparatus to reach a power…
Buffer allocation for parallel processing of data by message passing interface (MPI)
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170625
Examples described herein relate to receiving, at a network interface, an allocation of a first group of one or more buffers to store data to be processed by a Message Passing Interface (MPI) and based on a received packet including an indicator that permits the network interface to select a buffer for the received packet and store the received packet in the selected buffer, the network interface storing a portion of the received packet in a buffer of the first group of the one or more…
Technologies that provide policy enforcement for resource access
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170624
Examples described herein relate to one or more processors, when operational, to execute instructions stored in memory device, to cause performance of: execute a driver that is to: negotiate capabilities of hardware with a control plane for a virtualized execution environment and limit capabilities of the hardware available to the virtualized execution environment based on a service level agreement (SLA) associated with the virtualized execution environment. In some examples, the driver…
Semiconductor devices, transceiver, base station and mobile device
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170526
A semiconductor device comprising at least one transmit path is provided. The transmit path comprises an input node for receiving a digital baseband signal. Further, the transmit path comprises digital mixer circuitry coupled to the input node and configured to generate an upconverted digital baseband signal by upconverting a frequency of the digital baseband signal. Additionally, the transmit path comprises Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) circuitry coupled to the digital mixer…
Dual contact process with stacked metal layers
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170319
Embodiments disclosed herein include complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices and methods of forming CMOS devices. In an embodiment, a CMOS device comprises a first transistor with a first conductivity type, where the first transistor comprises a first source region and a first drain region, and a first metal over the first source region and the first drain region. In an embodiment, the CMOS device further comprises a second transistor with a second conductivity type…
Modular electronic device
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
D1054410
Metal-free frame design for silicon bridges for semiconductor packages
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170253
Metal-free frame designs for silicon bridges for semiconductor packages and the resulting silicon bridges and semiconductor packages are described. In an example, a semiconductor structure includes a substrate having an insulating layer disposed thereon, the substrate having a perimeter. A metallization structure is disposed on the insulating layer, the metallization structure including conductive routing disposed in a dielectric material stack. A first metal guard ring is disposed in…
High-throughput additively manufactured power delivery vias and traces
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12170244
An integrated circuit (IC) die package substrate comprises a first trace upon, or embedded within, a dielectric material. The first trace comprises a first metal and a first via coupled to the first trace. The first via comprises the first metal and a second trace upon, or embedded within, the dielectric material. A second via is coupled to the second trace, and at least one of the second trace or the second via comprises a second metal with a different microstructure or composition than…
Misuse index for explainable artificial intelligence in computing environments
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169780
A mechanism is described for facilitating misuse index for explainable artificial intelligence in computing environments, according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes mapping training data with inference uses in a machine learning environment, where the training data is used for training a machine learning model. The method may further include detecting, based on one or more policy/parameter thresholds, one or more discrepancies between the training…
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to increase data reuse for multiply and accumulate (MAC) operations
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169643
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that increase data reuse for multiply and accumulate (MAC) operations. An example apparatus includes a MAC circuit to process a first context of a set of a first type of contexts stored in a first buffer and a first context of a set of a second type of contexts stored in a second buffer. The example apparatus also includes control logic circuitry to, in response to determining that there is an additional context of…
Methods and apparatus for distributed use of a machine learning model
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169584
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for distributed use of a machine learning model are disclosed. An example edge device includes a model partitioner to partition a machine learning model received from an aggregator into private layers and public layers. A public model data store is implemented outside of a trusted execution environment of the edge device. The model partitioner is to store the public layers in the public model data store. A private model data store…
Remote traffic performance on cluster-aware processors
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169460
Embodiments are directed to improving remote traffic performance on cluster-aware processors. An embodiment of a system includes at least one processor package comprising a plurality of processor ports and a plurality of system agents; and a memory device to store platform initialization firmware to cause the processing system to: determine first locations of the plurality of processor ports in the at least one processor package; determine second locations of the plurality of system…
Dynamic self-correction of message reliability in LDPC codes
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169435
An embodiment of an electronic apparatus comprises one or more substrates, and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic to detect unreliable messages between check nodes and variable nodes in association with an error correction operation, determine respective degrees of unreliability for the unreliable messages, and reduce an influence of the unreliable messages on the error correction operation, as compared to an influence of reliable messages between the check nodes and…
Reflector for a camera on a computing device with a closable lid
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169352
A computing device with a closable lid and camera on the lid has a reflector arranged to use the camera while the lid of the computing device is closed.
Optical leak detection of liquid cooling components within an electronic system
Granted: December 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12169180
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes an electronic system having a printed circuit board with electronic components mounted thereon. At least some of the electronic components are coupled to components of a liquid cooling system. The electronic system has a light source and a photosensitive element. The light source is to illuminate an illuminated region of the printed circuit board and/or at least one of the electronic components. The photosensitive element is to detect a…
