Patent classifications
G06F13/4018
Asymmetric Read / Write Architecture for Enhanced Throughput and Reduced Latency
The present disclosure relates to asymmetric read/write architectures for enhanced throughput and reduced latency. One example embodiment includes an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a network interface. The integrated circuit also includes a communication bus interface. The integrated circuit is configured to establish a communication link with a processor of the host computing device over the communication bus interface, which includes mapping to memory addresses associated with the processor of the host computing device. The integrated circuit is also configured to receive payload data for transmission over the network interface in response to the processor of the host computing device writing payload data to the mapped memory addresses using one or more programmed input-outputs (PIOs). Further, the integrated circuit is configured to write payload data received over the network interface to the memory of the host computing device using direct memory access (DMA).
On-chip non-power of two data transactions
Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for transferring non-power of two (2) bytes of data between modules of an integrated circuit over an on-chip communication fabric. In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes an on-chip communication fabric, a first module comprising an interface coupled to the fabric having a first data width, and a second module comprising an interface coupled to the fabric having a second data width smaller than the first data width. The non-power of two (2) bytes of data are sent between the first and second modules through the fabric, and the fabric maps the non-power of two (2) bytes of data between the first and second data widths.
INTEGRATION OF DISPARATE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES USING CONFIGURABLE ISOLATED MEMORY REGIONS AND TRUST DOMAIN CONVERSION BRIDGE
Techniques are described for providing consistent memory operations and security across electronic circuitry components having disparate memory and/or security architectures when integrating such disparately architected components within a single system, such as a system on chip. A programmable logical hierarchy of isolated memory region (IMR) enforcement circuits is provided to protect such IMRs, allowing or preventing memory access requests from one of multiple distinct circuitry components based on configuration registers for the IMR enforcement circuits. Integration of multiple trust domain architectures associated with the multiple distinct circuitry components is facilitated via trust domain conversion bridge circuitry that includes translation logic for generating information in accordance with a first trust domain architecture based on information provided in accordance with a distinct second trust domain architecture.
SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGING DEVICE, READING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD
A signal processing device includes a data writing unit, a channel number converting unit, and a plurality of serial data transferring unit. The data writing unit is configured to write data of m channels into a memory. The channel number converting unit is configured to output the data read from the memory as data of n channels, where m is larger than n. The plurality of serial data transferring unit is configured to transfer the data of the n channels to a processing device in a subsequent stage.
MULTICHIP PACKAGE WITH PROTOCOL-CONFIGURABLE DATA PATHS
Integrated circuit packages with multiple integrated circuit dies are provided. A multichip package may include a substrate, a main die that is mounted on the substrate, and multiple transceiver daughter dies that are mounted on the substrate and that are coupled to the main die via corresponding Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) interconnects formed in the substrate. Each of the main die and the daughter dies may include configurable adapter circuitry for interfacing with the EMIB interconnects. The adapter circuitry may include FIFO buffer circuits operable in a 1× mode or 2× mode and configurable in a phase-compensation mode, a clock-compensation mode, an elastic mode, and a register bypass mode to help support a variety of communications protocols with different data width and clocking requirements. The adapter circuitry may also include boundary alignment circuitry for reconstructing (de)compressed data streams.
SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, SOUND DEVICE, AND SOUND PROCESSING SYSTEM
A sound processing method for a sound device including at least a physical controller, connectable to a sound processing apparatus, the method including, control the physical controller to operate in a first mode to execute an assignable function in the sound device, and a second mode to execute a preassigned function in the sound processing apparatus in a state where the sound device is connected thereto, detecting whether the sound device is connected to the sound processing apparatus, and receiving a switching instruction to switch from the first mode to the second mode after detecting connection between the sound device and the sound processing apparatus.
Memory systems and methods for dividing physical memory locations into temporal memory locations
Described are memory modules that support dynamic point-to-point extensibility using fixed-width memory die. The memory modules include data-width translators that allow the modules to vary the effective width of their external memory interfaces without varying the width of the internal memory interfaces extending between the translators and associated fixed-width dies. The data-width translators use a data-mask signal to selectively prevent memory accesses to subsets of physical addresses. This data masking divides the physical address locations into two or more temporal subsets of the physical address locations, effectively increasing the number of uniquely addressable locations in a given module. Reading temporal addresses in write order can introduce undesirable read latency. Some embodiments reorder read data to reduce this latency.
CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE OF DRIVE CIRCUIT AND DRIVE CIRCUIT
The present application refers to a control method and control device of a drive circuit, and a drive circuit. The control method of the drive circuit includes: acquiring a bus address in a bus signal. The bus signal is a signal transmitted over an I2C bus, and the I2C bus is connected to a timing controller. The control method further includes: if the timing controller determining that the bus address matches an address of the timing controller, transmitting a frequency adjustment signal to a controllable power supply with an adjustable operating frequency and connected to the timing controller. The frequency adjustment signal is configured to indicate that an operating frequency of the controllable power supply is adjusted from a first operating frequency to a second operating frequency. The second operating frequency is higher than the first operating frequency.
ASYMMETRIC DATA COMMUNICATION FOR HOST-DEVICE INTERFACE
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for performing asymmetric data communication at a host-device interface of a system. The methods include identifying devices coupled to a host of the system and generating a system topology that identifies a connectivity of the devices and identifies bus lanes that enable data transfers at the system. The host determines that a first connection between the host and a first device of the multiple devices has an asymmetric bandwidth requirement. The host configures a set of bus lanes of a data bus connecting the first device and the host to allocate a different number of the bus lanes to data egress from the host than to data ingress to the host. The bus lanes are configured to allocate the differing number of bus lanes based on the asymmetric bandwidth requirement of the first connection.
Integration of disparate system architectures using configurable isolated memory regions and trust domain conversion bridge
Techniques are described for providing consistent memory operations and security across electronic circuitry components having disparate memory and/or security architectures when integrating such disparately architected components within a single system, such as a system on chip. A programmable logical hierarchy of isolated memory region (IMR) enforcement circuits is provided to protect such IMRs, allowing or preventing memory access requests from one of multiple distinct circuitry components based on configuration registers for the IMR enforcement circuits. Integration of multiple trust domain architectures associated with the multiple distinct circuitry components is facilitated via trust domain conversion bridge circuitry that includes translation logic for generating information in accordance with a first trust domain architecture based on information provided in accordance with a distinct second trust domain architecture.