SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARDWARE MESSAGE PROCESSING
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250112933
Described herein are systems and methods for managing error detection in a message. A circuit can identify, based on an error detection configuration of the at least one circuit, a first portion of the message to be checked for errors before a second portion of the message is available to the at least one circuit, the first portion being less than all of the message to be checked for one or more errors. A circuit can analyze a number of bits of the first portion of the message using the…
REMOTE ACCELERATION FOR DATA DEPENDENT ADDRESS CALCULATION
Granted: April 3, 2025
Application Number:
20250110877
The disclosed device includes a processor and an interconnect connecting the processor to a memory. The interconnect includes an interconnect agent that can forward memory requests from the processor to the memory and receive requested data returned by the memory. The requested data can include information for a next memory request such that the interconnect agent can send, to the memory, a speculative memory request using information for the next memory request that was received in…
INDUCTOR CIRCUITRY
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250104904
Examples herein describe inductor circuitry including an inductor coil having a helical shape. The inductor coil includes a first turn and a second turn which are disposed within an isolation wall. The isolation wall extends above the inductor coil and below the inductor coil. The inductor circuitry includes an inductor leg which extends through an aperture of the isolation wall. The inductor leg includes a first portion which is disposed within the isolation wall and a second portion…
CO-SIMULATION ON A SYSTEM-ON-CHIP
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250103783
A system-on-chip (SoC) has programmable logic and a processor. A design tool generates configuration data to implement circuitry for emulation of a design-under-test (DUT) on the programmable logic and generates testbench executable code. The testbench executable code is configured to generate stimuli to the circuitry on the programmable logic. The processor can be configured to execute the testbench executable code and the programmable logic can be configured to implement the circuitry…
EXTENDING SYNCHRONOUS CIRCUIT DESIGNS OVER ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION LINKS UTILIZING A TRANSACTOR-BASED FRAMEWORK
Granted: March 27, 2025
Application Number:
20250103360
A circuit design emulation system having a plurality of integrated circuits (ICs) includes a first IC. The first IC includes an originator circuit configured to issue a request of a transaction directed to a completer circuit. The request is specified in a communication protocol. The first IC includes a completer transactor circuit coupled to the originator circuit and configured to translate the request into request data. The first IC includes a first interface circuit configured to…
DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR A PROGRAMMABLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR POWER DELIVERY NETWORK
Granted: March 20, 2025
Application Number:
20250096136
A disclosed semiconductor device includes (1) a silicon stack comprising a front-side Back-End-of-Line (BEOL) stack and a back side BEOL stack, the front-side BEOL stack comprising a plurality of signal routes and the back-side BEOL stack comprising a plurality of power delivery routes, and (2) a plurality of auxiliary power paths formed within the front-side BEOL stack and electrically coupled to the plurality of power delivery routes of the back-side BEOL stack via a plurality of…
SCHEDULING KERNELS ON A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH ONE OR MORE COMPUTE CIRCUITS
Granted: March 13, 2025
Application Number:
20250086007
Scheduling kernels on a system with heterogeneous compute circuits includes receiving, by a hardware processor, a plurality of kernels and a graph including a plurality of nodes corresponding to the plurality of kernels. The graph defines a control flow and a data flow for the plurality of kernels. The kernels are implemented within different ones of a plurality of compute circuits coupled to the hardware processor. A set of buffers for performing a job for the graph are allocated based,…
CONTROL SET OPTIMIZATION FOR CIRCUIT DESIGNS BY DETECTION OF REGISTERS WITH REDUNDANT RESETS
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250077760
Control set optimization for a circuit design includes generating, by a processor, Observability Don't Care (ODC) expressions for registers of the circuit design. Redundant reset pins of the registers of the circuit design are determined by the processor by iteratively checking, on a per-cube and a per-literal basis for each ODC expression, whether a value of a literal causes the ODC expression to evaluate to 1. A modified version of the circuit design is generated by the processor by…
LOW-SKEW SOLUTIONS FOR LOCAL CLOCK NETS IN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Granted: March 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250077757
Generating low skew clock solutions for local clocks in an integrated circuit includes, for a circuit design, determining a plurality of delay ranges for respective clock pins of a local clock net. Each delay range of the plurality of delay ranges includes an upper bound delay and a lower bound delay. The upper bound delays of the plurality of delay ranges are allocated as setup constraints for the respective clock pins of the local clock net. The lower bound delays are allocated as hold…
MEASURING AND COMPENSATING FOR CLOCK TREE VARIATION
Granted: February 6, 2025
Application Number:
20250044827
A system for clock variation measurement includes a first clock counter circuit configured to generate a plurality of first counts of a first clock signal, a second clock counter circuit configured to generate a plurality of second counts of a second clock signal, a first synchronizer circuit configured to synchronize the plurality of first counts according to a third clock signal, and a second synchronizer circuit configured to synchronize the plurality of second counts according to the…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING BASED VOLTAGE DROP PREDICTION FOR A 3D STACKED DEVICE
Granted: January 30, 2025
Application Number:
20250036848
A method for predicting voltage drop on a power delivery network of a 3D stacked device includes receiving a spatial power distribution map of a plurality of semiconductor dies of the 3D stacked device, receiving a spatial power source node location map for a plurality of power source nodes coupled to the 3D stacked device, dividing vertically the spatial power distribution map and the spatial power source node location map into overlapping windows, determining a voltage drop map in each…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING CHANNEL ACCESSIBILITY
Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number:
20250007684
A computer-implemented method for managing channel accessibility can include detecting, by a first circuit, a transmit request from the first circuit to transmit a message into a communication channel connecting the first circuit to second circuit. The method can include determining, by the first circuit, whether to approve the transmit request based on an evaluation of a first number associated with messages previously transmitted by the first circuit to the second circuit over the…
SMART PREDICTOR CIRCUITRY INSERTION BASED ON STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND SWITCHING ACTIVITY
Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number:
20250005249
Reducing power consumption of a circuit design includes, for a circuit block of a circuit design, where the circuit block has a plurality of signals, selecting one or more signals of the plurality of signals. Prediction and gating circuitry are generated. The prediction and gating circuitry include a predictor circuit configured to generate a prediction of an output of the circuit block based on the one or more signals as selected and gate the circuit block based on the prediction of the…
COMPILING A TENSOR TILING SPECIFICATION TO MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA MOVER CIRCUIT CONFIGURATIONS
Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number:
20250005246
Compiling a tensor specification for multi-dimensional direct memory access circuit configurations includes generating a first list of tile combination objects from a tensor tiling specification. The first list specifies a sequence of tiles specified by the tensor tiling specification in which each tile object represents a single tile of a tensor data structure. A second list of tile combination objects is generated by combining selected ones of the tile combination objects from the…
TILED COMPUTE AND PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC ARRAY
Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number:
20250004983
Examples herein describe a three-dimensional (3D) die stack. The 3D die stack includes a programmable logic (PL) die and a compute die stacked on top of the PL die. The PL die includes a plurality of configurable blocks and a plurality of first electrical connections on a top side of the PL die. The compute die includes a plurality of data processing engines and a plurality of second electrical connections on a bottom side of the compute die. The three-dimensional die stack includes a…
MULTI-HOST AND MULTI-CLIENT DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS SYSTEM HAVING A READ SCHEDULER
Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number:
20250004961
A direct memory access (DMA) system includes a read request circuit configured to receive read requests from a plurality of client circuits. The DMA system includes a response reassembly circuit configured to reorder read completion data received from a plurality of different hosts in response to the read requests. The DMA system includes a read scheduler circuit configured to schedule conveyance of the read completion data from the response reassembly circuit to the plurality of client…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEMORY MANAGEMENT
Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number:
20250004941
A computer-implemented method for memory management can include identifying a set of one or more memory blocks of virtual memory to be allocated for storage of a content into a plurality of memory banks that subdivide physical memory. The method can include storing the content in the set of one or more memory blocks of virtual memory. The method can include assigning an identifier to the set of one or more memory blocks of virtual memory that store the content. The method can include…
HIGH PERFORMANCE TRACE OFFLOAD CIRCUIT ARCHITECTURE
Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number:
20250004919
An integrated circuit includes a compute circuit and a trace data mover circuit coupled to the compute circuit. The trace data mover circuit is configured to convey trace data generated by the compute circuit to a destination circuit. The trace data mover circuit includes a controller circuit configured to receive a stream of trace data from the compute circuit and generate instructions for writing the trace data. The trace data mover circuit includes a writer circuit configured to write…
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ORDER OF COMMAND PROCESSING
Granted: January 2, 2025
Application Number:
20250004782
A computer-implemented method for managing processing order for a plurality of commands can include in response to receiving each command of a plurality of commands in a receipt order, assigning each respective command of the plurality of commands to a respective processing queue of a plurality of processing queues to be processed, and setting, for each of the plurality of commands and in the receipt order, an identifier based on the respective queue assigned to each of the plurality of…
PERFORMANCE EVALUATOR FOR A HETEROGENOUS HARDWARE PLATFORM
Granted: December 19, 2024
Application Number:
20240419626
Performance evaluation of a heterogeneous hardware platform includes implementing a traffic generator design in an integrated circuit. The traffic generator design includes traffic generator kernels including a traffic generator kernel implemented in a data processing array of the integrated circuit and a traffic generator kernel implemented in a programmable logic of the integrated circuit. The traffic generator design is executed in the integrated circuit. The traffic generator kernels…
