Virtualization of interprocessor interrupts
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248800
Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for virtualization of interprocessor interrupts are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a plurality of processor cores; an interrupt controller register; and logic to, in response to a write from a virtual machine to the interrupt controller register, record an interprocessor interrupt in a first data structure configured by a virtual machine monitor and send a notification of the interprocessor interrupt to at least one of…
Radiation shield with zipper
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250800
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to include a radiation shield that includes a zipper. The radiation shield can include a wall that extends from a support structure of the electronic device, a first portion that is coupled to a cold plate over a radiation source, a second portion that is coupled to the wall, and a zipper that can zip the first portion to the second portion together and can unzip to separate the first portion…
Vertical edge blocking (VEB) technique for increasing patterning process margin
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249541
Embodiments disclosed herein include semiconductor devices and methods of forming such semiconductor devices. In an embodiment, a method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprises, forming a first grating of parallel first lines, forming a second grating of parallel second lines, wherein the second lines are substantially orthogonal to the first lines, and wherein the first lines and second lines define a plurality of first openings, disposing a conformal mask layer over the first…
Encoding additional states in a three-dimensional crosspoint memory architecture
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249372
A state may be encoded into a memory cell comprising a phase change material (PM) region and a select device (SD) region by: applying a first current in the memory cell over a first time period, wherein the first current applied over the first time period causes the PM region of the memory cell to be placed into an amorphous state and the SD region of the memory cell to be placed into an amorphous state; and applying a second current in the memory cell over a second time period after the…
Dynamic power adjustment for OLED panels
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249297
Methods and systems for dynamically adjusting the power consumption of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel are disclosed. In embodiments, a histogram of a frame to be displayed is generated, and a weighted dimming curve is generated, with heavier weighting given to mid-tone intensity pixels. High and low intensity pixels are left only minimally adjusted. The curve is then capped and smoothed to prevent artifacts and to preserve image contrast. Each pixel in the frame is then…
Apparatus and method for seamless container migration for graphics processors and associated devices
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249004
Apparatus and method for migrating a container including graphics processor state. One embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a first graphics processor coupled to a first system memory; execution circuitry of the graphics processor to execute graphics operations of processes grouped into a plurality of containers, the execution circuitry to be shared by the plurality of containers; and a first container migration engine to migrate a first container of the plurality of containers to a…
Decision architecture for autonomous systems
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248852
Various systems and methods implement a decision architecture for autonomous systems. An autonomous system framework includes a safety ring configured to interface with safety features of an autonomous system; a security ring configured to provide authentication and verification services to transactions passed through the security ring; a privacy ring configured to ensure privacy of a user of the autonomous system; a trustworthiness ring configured to log and provide transparency of…
Scalable gate control in quantum circuit assemblies
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248848
Quantum circuit assemblies that employ active pulse shaping in order to be able to control states of a plurality of qubits with signal pulses propagated over a shared signal propagation channel are disclosed. An example quantum circuit assembly includes a quantum circuit component that includes a first qubit, associated with a first frequency to control the state of the first qubit, and a second qubit, associated with a second frequency to control the state of the second qubit. A shared…
Methods and apparatus for task relocation based on memory access patterns
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248808
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to relocate a compute thread, the apparatus comprising control circuitry to maintain a location of a plurality of domain access counters associated with a plurality of compute-memory domains for a first compute thread, and an execution monitor to set a first domain access counter of the plurality of domain access counters, the first domain access counter associated with a first compute-memory domain of the…
Methods, apparatus, systems, and instructions to migrate protected virtual machines
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248807
Techniques for migration of a source protected virtual machine from a source platform to a destination platform are descried. A method of an aspect includes enforcing that bundles of state, of a first protected virtual machine (VM), received at a second platform over a stream, during an in-order phase of a migration of the first protected VM from a first platform to the second platform, are imported to a second protected VM of the second platform, in a same order that they were exported…
Photonic integrated circuit and light detection and ranging system
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248174
A photonic integrated circuit including a semiconductor substrate having integrate a semiconductor light source configured to emit coherent light of at least the first wavelength and the second wavelength, the semiconductor light source having a first factor; a waveguide structure optically coupled to the semiconductor light source, the waveguide structure having a second Q factor that is higher than the first Q factor, the waveguide structure configured to form an optical cavity for at…
Instruction length decoding
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248785
A processor includes a binary translator an a decoder. The binary translator includes logic to analyze a stream of atomic instructions, identify words by boundary bits in the atomic instructions, generate a mask to identify the words, and load the mask and the plurality of words into an instruction cache line. The words include atomic instructions. At least one word includes more than one atomic instruction. The decoder includes logic to apply the mask to identify a first word from the…
Frequency scaling for per-core accelerator assignments
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248783
Methods for frequency scaling for per-core accelerator assignments and associated apparatus. A processor includes a CPU (central processing unit) having multiple cores that can be selectively configured to support frequency scaling and instruction extensions. Under this approach, some cores can be configured to support a selective set of AVX instructions (such as AVX3/5G-ISA instructions) and/or AMX instructions, while other cores are configured to not support these AVX/AMX instructions.…
Side-channel exploit detection
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248570
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for detecting side-channel exploit attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown. Performance monitoring circuitry includes first counter circuitry to monitor CPU cache misses and second counter circuitry to monitor DTLB load misses. Upon detecting an excessive number of cache misses and/or load misses, the performance monitoring circuitry transfers the first and second counter circuitry data to control circuitry. The control circuitry…
Apparatus and method for role-based register protection for TDX-IO
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248561
Apparatus and method for role-based register protection. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: one or more processor cores to execute instructions and process data, the one or more processor cores to execute one or more security instructions to protect a virtual machine or trusted application from a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or operating system (OS); an interconnect fabric to couple the one or more processor cores to a device; and security hardware logic to determine…
Authenticator-integrated generative adversarial network (GAN) for secure deepfake generation
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248556
An apparatus to facilitate an authenticator-integrated generative adversarial network (GAN) for secure deepfake generation is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to: generate, by a generative neural network, samples based on feedback received from a discriminator neural network and from an authenticator neural network, the generative neural network aiming to trick the discriminator neural network to identify the generated samples as real content samples; digest, by…
Techniques to reduce memory power consumption during a system idle state
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248356
Examples include techniques to reduce memory power consumption during a system idle state. Cores of a single socket multi-core processor may be mapped to different virtual non-uniform memory architecture (NUMA) nodes and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may be partitioned into multiple segments that are capable of having self-refresh operations separately deactivated or activated. Different segments from among the multiple segments of DRAM may be mapped to the virtual NUMA nodes to…
Technologies for liquid cooling interfaces
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248344
Techniques for liquid cooling interfaces with rotatable connector assemblies are disclosed. In one embodiment, a collar contacts flanges on two components of a connector assembly, preventing them from separating. In another embodiment, a housing is positioned around a stem component. The stem component has a gap between a top part and a bottom part held apart by pillars, allowing water to flow to a tubing fitting connected to the housing. A retainer on top of the stem component holds the…
Processor embedded streaming buffer
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248333
Techniques are disclosed for the use of local buffers integrated into the execution units of a vector processor architecture. The use of local buffers results in less communication across the interconnection network implemented by vector processors, and increases interconnection network bandwidth, increases the speed of computations, and decreases power usage.
Functional safety with root of safety and chain of safety
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12248304
A data verifier, comprising: a first processing circuitry, configured to perform a first safety operation, the first safety operation comprising: determining whether first sensor data representing a second processing circuitry factor satisfy a first verification criterion; and if first verification criterion is satisfied, execute a first safety measure; and if the first verification criterion is not satisfied, execute a second safety measure; a second processing circuitry, configured to…
