Hardware-efficient PAM-3 encoder and decoder
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12132590
Data bits are encoded in one or both of an eleven bit seven pulse amplitude modulated three-level (PAM-3) symbol (11b7s) format and a three bit two symbol (3b2s) format on a plurality of data channels, one or more auxiliary data channels, and an error correction channel. One or more of a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value, a poison value, and a severity value are encoded as 11b7s and/or 3b2s PAM-3 symbols on an error correction channel.
Physically unclonable cell using dual-interlocking and error correction techniques
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12131800
PUF cells utilizing a dual-interlocking scheme demonstrating improved noise immunity and stability across different V/T conditions and different uses over time in noisy environments. The PUF cell may be advantageously utilized in conjunction with error detection techniques that screen out unstable cells. A set of such PUF cells utilized to generate a device-specific bit pattern, for example a master key.
Keeper-free volatile memory system
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12131775
A static random access memory (SRAM) or other bit-storing cell arrangement includes memory cells and a hierarchical bitline structure including local bitlines for subsets of the memory banks and a global bitline spanning the subsets. A keeper circuit for the global bitline is replaced by bias circuitry on output transistors of the memory cells.
Object fence generation for lane assignment in autonomous machine applications
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12131556
In various examples, object fence corresponding to objects detected by an ego-vehicle may be used to determine overlap of the object fences with lanes on a driving surface. A lane mask may be generated corresponding to the lanes on the driving surface, and the object fences may be compared to the lanes of the lane mask to determine the overlap. Where an object fence is located in more than one lane, a boundary scoring approach may be used to determine a ratio of overlap of the boundary…
Hardware support for optimizing huge memory page selection
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12130750
Computer systems often employ virtual address translation hierarchies in which virtual memory addresses are mapped to physical memory. Use of the virtual address translation hierarchy speeds up the virtual address translation when the required mapping is stored in one of the higher levels of the hierarchy. To reduce a number of misses occurring in the virtual address translation hierarchy, huge memory pages may be selectively employed, which map larger continuous regions of virtual…
Techniques for controlling computing performance for power-constrained multi-processor computing systems
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12130687
A computer-implemented method of controlling power consumption in a multi-processor computing device comprises: determining whether a first processor is operating in a high-power regime or a low-power regime; selecting a first set of control rules that includes a first subset of control rules that apply when the first processor is operating in the high-power regime and a second subset of control rules that apply when the first processor is operating in the low-power regime; determining…
Leaf spring for an integrated circuit heat sink
Granted: October 29, 2024
Patent Number:
12129901
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a leaf spring for coupling a heat sink to an integrated circuit, where the leaf spring includes a central portion that has an aperture, a first spring arm that is formed on a first side of the central portion and includes a first through-hole for a first fastener, and a second spring arm that is formed on a second side of the central portion and includes a second through-hole for a second fastener. In various embodiments, a first…
Conversational AI-encoded language for data compression
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12126791
Systems and methods of compressing video data are disclosed. The proposed systems provide a computer-implemented process configured to classify a person's behavior(s) during a video and encode the behaviors as a representation of the video. When playback of the video is requested, a reconstruction of the video is generated by a video synthesizer based on a reference image of the person and the sequence of codes corresponding to their behavior during the video. Storage and transmission of…
Outlet quality factor stabilization for datacenter cooling systems
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12127381
Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, one or more outlet reservoirs are associated with a stabilizing subsystem and a rack so that one or more outlet reservoirs can receive two-phase fluid that is outlet from a plurality of cold plates of a rack and so that a stabilizing subsystem can stabilize a quality factor of a two-phase fluid to a predetermined quality factor before heat is removed from a two-phase fluid and it is cycled to such…
Staged commissioning for datacenter cooling systems
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12127374
Systems and methods for a datacenter cooling system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, reconfigurable terminations are provided for fluid loops in a datacenter cooling system with individual ones of such reconfigurable terminations are to be configured in a first state to enable non-cooling fluid runs through individual ones of such fluid loops, taken individually and in combination, during commissioning of a datacenter cooling system, and are to be configured in a second state…
Real-time persistent object tracking for intelligent video analytics systems
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12125277
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for real-time persistent object tracking for intelligent video analytics systems. A state of a first object included in an environment may be tracked based on a first set of images depicting the environment. The first set of images may be generated during a first time period. It may be determined that the first object is not detected in the environment depicted in a second set of images. The second set of images may be generated during a second time…
Semiconductor component update device
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124832
Devices and methods to update semiconductor components are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a device updates semiconductor components independent of a semiconductor component operational state.
Method for efficient grouping of cache requests for datapath scheduling
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124378
In a ray tracer, a cache for streaming workloads groups ray requests for coherent successive bounding volume hierarchy traversal operations by sending common data down an attached data path to all ray requests in the group at the same time or about the same time. Grouping the requests provides good performance with a smaller number of cache lines.
Leveraging low power states for fault testing of processing cores at runtime
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124346
In various examples, one or more components or regions of a processing unit—such as a processing core, and/or component thereof—may be tested for faults during deployment in the field. To perform testing while in deployment, the state of a component subject to test may be retrieved and/or stored during the test to maintain state integrity, the component may be clamped to communicatively isolate the component from other components of the processing unit, a test vector may be applied…
Techniques to modify processor performance
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12124308
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to optimize processor performance. In at least one embodiment, a method increases an operation voltage of one or more processors, based at least in part, on one or more error rates of the one or more processors.
Context-based state estimation
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12122392
State information can be determined for a subject that is robust to different inputs or conditions. For drowsiness, facial landmarks can be determined from captured image data and used to determine a set of blink parameters. These parameters can be used, such as with a temporal network, to estimate a state (e.g., drowsiness) of the subject. To improve robustness, an eye state determination network can determine eye state from the image data, without reliance on intermediate landmarks,…
Generating computer simulations of manipulations of materials based on machine learning from measured statistics of observed manipulations
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12122053
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify at least one physical characteristic of materials from computer simulations of manipulations of materials. In at least one embodiment, physical characteristics are determined by comparing measured statistics of observed manipulations to simulations of manipulations using a simulator trained with a likelihood-free inference engine.
Automatic classification and reporting of inappropriate language in online applications
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12121823
In various examples, game session audio data—e.g., representing speech of users participating in the game—may be monitored and/or analyzed to determine whether inappropriate language is being used. Where inappropriate language is identified, the portions of the audio corresponding to the inappropriate language may be edited or modified such that other users do not hear the inappropriate language. As a result, toxic behavior or language within instances of gameplay may be…
Transferring from a cloud-hosted instance of an application to a local instance
Granted: October 22, 2024
Patent Number:
12121801
In various examples, a user may access or acquire an application to download to the user's local computing device. Upon accessing the application, a local instance of the application may begin downloading to the computing device, and the user may be given the option to play a cloud-hosted instance of the application. If the user selects to play a hosted instance of the application, the cloud-hosted instance of the application may begin streaming while the local instance of the…
Asynchronous data movement pipeline
Granted: October 15, 2024
Patent Number:
12118382
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to parallelize operations in one or more programs with data copies from global memory to shared memory in each of the one or more programs. In at least one embodiment, a program performs operations on shared data and then asynchronously copies shared data to shared memory, and continues performing additional operations in parallel while the shared data is copied to shared memory until an indicator provided by an application programming interface to…
