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…
Power management in battery powered communication device and method
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250636
A battery-powered device includes a baseband modem, configured to receive or send data according to a first operational mode, wherein the data correspond to a software application being executed on the battery-powered device; and a processor, configured to determine a resource requirement of the software application; and send a signal representing the determined resource requirement to the baseband modem; wherein the baseband modem is further configured to change from the first…
Autonomous vehicle communication framework for multi-network scenarios
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250617
Approaches for Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X), Vehicle-To-Vehicle (V2V), and Autonomous Vehicles Distributed Networks (AVDN) functions in a MEC infrastructure are discussed. In various examples, operations and network configurations are described that use a service in an AVDN, including: identifying a service condition (e.g., based on a state of a service and connectivity to an instance of the service); establishing a connection in the AVDN in response to…
Methods and arrangements for application service discovery
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250592
Logic to generate an extremely high throughput (EHT) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) comprising a medium access control (MAC) management frame. the MAC management frame comprising a QoS management field. the QoS management field comprising at least one bit value to indicate quality of service (QoS) management capability associated with links associated with more than one frequency bands. Logic to cause the transmission of the EHT PPDU. And logic to receive and decode the EHT…
Techniques to detect attacks for time synchronization networking
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12250233
Techniques include a method, apparatus, system and computer-readable medium to detect, quantify and localize attacks to enhance security for time-synchronized networking. Embodiments include a diagnostic stream producer to produce diagnostic information providing evidence of a timing attack on a node of a time-synchronized network. Embodiments include a diagnostic stream consumer to consume diagnostic information, analyze the diagnostic information, and determine whether a node is under…
Microelectronic assemblies having integrated magnetic core inductors
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249584
Microelectronic assemblies, related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a first die in a first dielectric layer; a magnetic core inductor, having a first surface and an opposing second surface, in the first dielectric layer, including a first conductive pillar, having a first end at the first surface of the magnetic core inductor and an opposing second end at the second surface, at least partially surrounded by a magnetic…
Cap structure for interconnect dielectrics and methods of fabrication
Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number:
12249577
An integrated circuit structure includes a first interconnect level including a first dielectric between a pair of interconnect structures, a second interconnect level above the first interconnect level. The second interconnect level includes a cap structure including a second dielectric on the first dielectric, the cap structure includes a top surface and a sidewall surface and a liner comprising a third dielectric on the top surface and on the sidewall surface.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Fan out packaging pop mechanical attach method
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243856
Embodiments include semiconductor packages and a method of forming the semiconductor packages. A semiconductor package includes a mold over and around a first die and a first via. The semiconductor package has a conductive pad of a first redistribution layer disposed on a top surface of the first die and/or a top surface of the mold. The semiconductor package includes a second die having a solder ball coupled to a die pad on a bottom surface of the second die, where the solder ball of…
Determining adaptive quantization matrices using machine learning for video coding
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12244807
Techniques related to adaptive quantization matrix selection using machine learning for video coding are discussed. Such techniques include applying a machine learning model to generate an estimated quantization parameter for a frame and selecting a set of quantization matrices for encode of the frame from a number of sets of quantization matrices based on the estimated quantization parameter.
Methods and apparatus to perform dirty region reads and writes to reduce memory bandwidth usage
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12244798
An example apparatus includes image processing circuitry to determine an uncovered region of a background image in a current video frame relative to the background image in a previous video frame, the uncovered region obscured in the previous video frame by a first foreground region of the previous video frame, and the uncovered region uncovered in the current video frame based on movement of a second foreground region in the current video frame relative to the first foreground region of…
