Intel Corporation

Dennis R Halicki

Venkatraman Iyer

Robert G Blankenship

Arvind A Kumar

Darren S Jue

Santanu Chaudhuri

Arvind Kumar

A method and system to adapt communication links statically and/or dynamically to their individual link conditions on a platform. The communicatively coupled devices have logic to adapt one or more settings of a respective one or more communication links with another device based at least in part on a respective metric of received data patterns from the respective one or more communication links. The communicatively coupled devices in the platform have a back channel to allow feedback or information to be sent from one receiving device to a transmitting device in one embodiment of the invention.

Method and system of adapting communication links to link conditions on a platform

Methods and apparatus relating to enhanced interconnect link width modulation for power savings are described. In one embodiment, the width of a link is modified from a first width to a second width in response to a power management flit, while non-idle flits continue to be transmitted over the link after transmission of the power management flit. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Enhanced interconnect link width modulation for power savings

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Dennis R Halicki