Intel Corporation

Altera Corporation

Skyechip Sdn Bhd

Chee Hak Teh

Lai Guan Tang

Soon Chieh Lim

Dheeraj R Subbareddy

Md Altaf Hossain

Ankireddy Nalamalpu

Arifur Rahman

Yu Ying Ong

Sean R Atsatt

Hee Kong Phoon

Chee Seng Leong

George Chong Hean Ooi

Han Wooi Lim

Tat Hin Tan

Zohar Bogin

Suryaprasad Kareenahalli

Kenneth Chong Yin Tan

Muhamad Aidil Bin Jazmi

Weng Li Leow

Lance E Hacking

Jeffrey Erik Schulz

Chooi Pei Lim

Ramana V Rachakonda

Mahesh K Reddy

John P Lee

Jeffrey Chromczak

Lori R Borger

Chang Kian Tan

Hoong Chin Ng

Curtis Wortman

Tze Jian Chow

Pawitter P Bhatia

Yeong Tat Liew

Scott J Weber

Su Wei Lim

Ashish Gupta

Ilya K Ganusov

Arthur Hunter, Jr

Gary Brian Wallichs

Poh Thiam Teoh

Alok Kumar Mathur

Chai Huat Gan

Richard Grenier

Parivallal Kannan

Arthur D Hunter

Selvakumar Sivarajah

Chee Nouk Phoon

Kah Wai Lee

Kevin Chao Ing Teoh

Mary Siaw See Yeoh

Ging Yeon Mark Wong

How Hwan Wong

Wong Ging Yeon Mark

Soong Khim Chew

Ching Liang Ooi

Tick Sern Loh

Aman Gupta

Wilfred Wee Kee King

Chuen Heong Khuan

Zhen Peng Chok

Cheau Nih Tan

The present invention discloses a computer-implemented method for offset calibration and an integrated circuit (IC) memory controller for offset calibration. Said method comprises the step of: performing offset calibration of a receiver read-data strobe replica; conditioning pad voltages of a receiver read-data strobe and the receiver read-data strobe replica based on an offset calibration value of the receiver read-data strobe replica; and performing offset calibration of the receiver read-data strobe based on an offset calibration value of the pad voltages; wherein disabling differential inputs of transmission gate from a differential strobe signal pins to the receiver read-data strobe replica during receiver read-data strobe replica offset calibration.

Offset calibration method and apparatus for high bandwidth memory 3 (HBM3)

The present invention relates to a system (or) for aligning a programmable clock or strobe. The system (or) comprises a first programmable delay unit () for receiving the programmable clock or strobe, characterized by a second programmable delay unit () connected in parallel to the first programmable delay unit () for receiving the programmable clock or strobe, a switch () for switching one of the two programmable delay units (or) to service the programmable clock or strobe so as to allow the other programmable delay unit (or) to adjust the other programmable clock or strobe, and a control logic component () for handling the switching of the switch (), in which the switch () swaps in the adjusted programmable clock or strobe to service a downstream clocktree or strobe path after the programmable clock or strobe is adjusted. The present invention also relates to a method for aligning a programmable clock or strobe.

System and a method for aligning a programmable clock or strobe

The presently disclosed programmable fabric die includes a direct fabric die-to-fabric die interconnect interface column disposed in a sector of programmable logic fabric. Each row of the interconnect interface column includes at least one interconnect interface that is electrically coupled to a microbump. The microbump is configured to be electrically coupled to another microbump of another interconnect interface of another fabric die through an interposer. The fabric die may include multiple interconnect interface columns that each extend deep into the sector, enabling low latency connections between the fabric dies and reducing routing congestion. In some embodiments, the fabric die may include interconnect interfaces that are instead distributed throughout logic blocks of the sector.

Fabric die to fabric die interconnect for modularized integrated circuit devices

The present invention relates to a system for network-on-chip power management. The system comprising a primary network-on-chip comprises multiple components, each component having a power controller, characterized by a secondary network-on-chip comprises a secondary network-on-chip master node and a plurality of secondary network-on-chip nodes connected thereto, the plurality of secondary network-on-chip nodes associated to the components of the primary network-on-chip for power managing individual and link components of the primary network-on-chip, and a power management unit connected to the secondary network-on-chip master node, configured to polling status registers of the components of the primary network-on-chip for accessing power states of each component, accessing routing information of the components of the primary network-on-chip and sending request to the secondary network-on-chip nodes for powering on or off the associated components of the primary network-chip through the power controller. A method for network-on-chip power management is also disclosed herein.

System and a method for network-on-chip power management

The present invention relates a network-on-chip (NoC) system for optimizing data transfer, the system comprising a plurality of nodes including a source node and a destination node; characterized by a plurality of routers attached to the plurality of nodes that route a plurality of data packets from the source node to the destination node; wherein each of the plurality of packets is tagged with a routing information (RINFO), each node is assigned with a node unique identifier (ID) and each router is assigned with a router unique identifier (RID) for each horizontal and vertical routing direction for 2D and 3D interconnect topologies; wherein each of the router comprising at least a pair of ingress port and egress port, a route decoder and an arbiter to support a synchronous, an asynchronous and a source-synchronous operations. The present invention also relates to a method of optimizing data transfer using the NoC system.

Network-on-chip system for optimizing data transfer

A memory controller for improving data integrity and providing data security. The memory controller including a transmit data path to transmit write data to a memory device, the transmit data path comprising a scrambling component, wherein the scrambling component includes a scrambling logic and an exclusive OR logic, wherein the write data is divided into a first portion and a second portion, wherein input of the scrambling logic comprises the first portion of the write data and an address associated with the write data to generate a pseudo-random output, and wherein input of the exclusive OR logic comprises the second portion of the write data, the pseudo-random output and a fixed seed corresponding to the first portion of the write data to generate a scrambled data.

Memory controller for improving data integrity and providing data security and a method of operating thereof

A method comprises the steps of receiving input from a user via user interface and selecting a plurality of flits from a plurality of ingress into a plurality of virtual channels followed by selecting the flits from the virtual channels into a plurality of egress based on the input from the user. The selection of the flits into the virtual channels and the egress characterized by the steps of computing default and elevated bandwidths of the virtual channels, computing default and elevated weights of the virtual channels based on the default and elevated bandwidths and generating a weightage lookup table using the default and elevated weights to perform arbitration weightage lookup for the flits with default and elevated priority levels for selecting the flits into the virtual channels and the egress, wherein the flits from the different ingress comprise different default and elevated weight.

Method and a system for network-on-chip arbitration

Systems and methods described herein may relate to data transactions involving a microsector architecture. Control circuitry may organize transactions to and from the microsector architecture to, for example, enable direct addressing transactions as well as batch transactions across multiple microsectors. A data path disposed between programmable logic circuitry of a column of microsectors and a column of row controllers may form a micro-network-on-chip used by a network-on-chip to interface with the programmable logic circuitry.

Micro-network-on-chip and microsector infrastructure

Systems or methods of the present disclosure may improve scalability (e.g., component scalability, product variation scalability) of integrated circuit systems by disaggregating periphery intellectual property (IP) circuitry into modular periphery IP tiles that can be installed as modules. Such an integrated circuit system may include a first die that includes programmable fabric circuitry and a second die that includes a periphery IP tile. The periphery IP tile may be disaggregated from the programmable fabric die and may be communicatively coupled to the first die via a modular interface.

Modular periphery tile for integrated circuit device

The present invention relates to a system and method for transferring configuration, management, debug information and asynchronous events between network-on-chip (NOC) and external interface, wherein said system, referred to as secondary network (), comprises of a plurality of configuration bus (CBUS) network elements such as a master network element () and a plurality of basic network elements (); whereby said secondary network () is capable to convey events such as request, acknowledge assertions or de-assertions, saving the need for numerous wires connecting between main NOC elements such as nodes or routers.

System and method for transferring configuration, management, debug information and asynchronous events between network-on-chip (NOC) and external interface

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus of calibrating memory interface, wherein said method and apparatus is able to periodically re-adjust the placement of the receive enable signal in order to have said receive enable signal to be in an optimum position in relation to the DQS signal from an external memory device to achieve maximum timing margin regardless of voltage or temperature drift and/or process aging to the integrated circuit.

Method and apparatus of receive enable margining in memory interface

An integrated circuit die includes input buffer circuits that are enabled during an input mode of operation in response to first control signals to transmit input signals into the integrated circuit die from conductive bumps. Each of the input buffer circuits is coupled to one of the conductive bumps. The integrated circuit die also includes output buffer circuits that are each coupled to one of the conductive bumps. The output buffer circuits are enabled during an output mode of operation in response to second control signals to transmit output signals from the integrated circuit die to the conductive bumps. The input buffer circuits are disabled from transmitting signals during the output mode of operation in response to the first control signals. The output buffer circuits are disabled from transmitting signals during the input mode of operation in response to the second control signals.

Techniques for clock signal transmission in integrated circuits and interposers

Described herein are memory controllers for integrated circuits that implement network-on-chip (NoC) to provide access to memory to couple processing cores of the integrated circuit to a memory device. The NoC may be dedicated to service the memory controller and may include one or more routers to facilitate management of the access to the memory controller.

Scalable network-on-chip for high-bandwidth memory

An integrated circuit may include integrated memory that is formed from a chain of memory blocks. Each memory block may have configurable input and output circuits. The configurable input and output circuits may be interposed between memory circuitry such as a memory array from circuitry external to the memory circuitry. The configurable input and output circuits may have upstream and downstream memory block connection ports. In such a way, configurable input and output circuits in a first memory block may pass control and address signals and data to configurable input and output circuits in a second memory block. By using the configurable input and output circuits, the integrated memory in the integrated circuit may operate to accommodate large bandwidth flows without using the general routing fabric of the integrated circuit.

Integrated circuits having memory with flexible input-output circuits

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