Nvidia Corporation

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation

Mmc Networks, Inc.

Other

Skyera, LLC

Dmitry Vyshetsky

Alexander Joffe

Sean Jeffrey Treichler

Brad W Simeral

Paul Gyugyi

Colyn Scott Case

Howard Tsai

Anand Srinivasan

David G Reed

Robert William Chapman

Joshua Titus

Hari Unni Krishnan

Neal Meininger

Roman Surgutchick

Radoslav Danilak

Ziyad Sami Hakura

Brian K Langendorf

Nirmal Raj Saxena

Roman Surgutchik

Stefano A Pescador

Virtual chip enable techniques perform memory access operations on virtual chip enables rather than physical chip enables. Each virtual chip enable is a construct that includes attributes that correspond to a unique physical or logical memory device.

Virtualization of chip enables

A memory controller, in one embodiment, includes a command translation data structure, a front end and a back end. The command translation data structure maps command operations to primitives, wherein the primitives are decomposed from command operations determined for one or more memory devices. The front end receives command operations from a processing unit and translates each command operation to a set of one or more corresponding primitives using the command translation data structure. The back end outputs the set of one or more corresponding primitives for each received command operation to a given memory device.

Memory controller adaptable to multiple memory devices

A chassis for a storage system contains a digital chamber that houses conventional electronic components and a thermal chamber that houses non-volatile solid state memory such as flash memory. A temperature regulating system monitors temperature within the digital chamber to keep the components therein below their maximum junction temperature. The temperature regulating system tightly regulates the temperature of solid state memory chips to within a nominal operating temperature range selected to extend the lifetime and/or improve the endurance and reliability of the solid state memory. The temperature regulating system may regulate different memory chips to different nominal temperatures based on the operations being performed and lifetime factors for the memory chips including current health and prior use.

Thermal regulation for solid state memory

A system for selecting a subset of issued flash storage commands to improve processing time for command execution. A plurality of ports stores a first plurality of command identifiers and are associated with the plurality of ports. Each of the first plurality of arbiters selects an oldest command identifier among command identifiers within each corresponding port resulting in a second plurality of command identifiers. A second arbiter makes a plurality of selections from the second plurality of command identifiers based on command identifier age and the priority of the port. A session identifier queue stores commands associated with the plurality of selections among other commands forming a third plurality of commands. A microcontroller selects an executable command from the third plurality of commands for execution based on an execution optimization heuristic. After execution of the command, the command identifier in the port is cleared.

Method and system for improved flash controller commands selection

In a multi-tasking pipelined processor, consecutive instructions are executed by different tasks, eliminating the need to purge an instruction execution pipeline of subsequent instructions when a previous instruction cannot be completed. The tasks do not share registers which store task-specific values, thus eliminating the need to save or load registers when a new task is scheduled for execution. If an instruction accesses an unavailable resource, the instruction becomes suspended, allowing other tasks' instructions to be executed instead until the resource becomes available. Task scheduling is performed by hardware; no operating system is needed. Simple techniques are provided to synchronize shared resource access between different tasks.

Systems and methods for multi-tasking, resource sharing, and execution of computer instructions

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for allowing data structures to be moved between storage locations of varying performance and cost without changing the application firmware. In one embodiment, rather than application firmware directly accessing memory, the application firmware requests a data structure by parameters, to which the implementation returns a pointer. The parameters can be, for example, the logical block address of a data sector, and the data structure can be mapping and associated information of that logical block address (LBA) to a location in the flash device.

Method and system for data structure management

An error locator unit for correcting two bit error. The error locator unit includes a plurality of operational units, a normalized basis transform unit, and a conversion unit. The plurality of operations units calculates coefficients of the polynomial based on the generated syndromes in a first basis of a Galois Field. Operating on the coefficients produces a root definition value vector in the first basis. The normalized basis transform unit transforms the root definition value vector to a normal basis to produce a plurality of roots. The conversion unit converts the plurality of roots to the first basis. A scaling factor calculated based on the coefficients is applied to the output of the conversion unit to produce a plurality of scaled roots for said polynomial in the first basis. The plurality of scaled roots is added to produce error locations for the polynomial.

Method and system for fast two bit error correction

A data path controller, a computer device, an apparatus and a method are disclosed for integrating power management functions into a data path controller to manage power consumed by processors and peripheral devices. By embedding power management within the data path controller, the data path controller can advantageously modify its criteria in-situ so that it can adapt its power management actions in response to changes in processors and peripheral devices. In addition, the data path controller includes a power-managing interface that provides power-monitoring ports for monitoring and/or quantifying power consumption of various components. In one embodiment, the data path controller includes a power-monitoring interface for selectably monitoring power of a component. It also includes a controller for adjusting operational characteristics of the component for modifying the power consumed by the component to comply with a performance profile, which generally specifies permissible power consumption levels for the component.

Data path controller with integrated power management to manage power consumption of a computing device and its components

A system controller includes a memory controller and a host interface residing in different clock domains. There is a time delay between the time when the memory controller issues a read command to a memory and the data becoming present and available at the host interface. The memory controller generates an alarm message at or near the time that it issues the read command. The alarm message indicates to the host interface the time that the data is available for transfer to a host.

Apparatus, system, and method for a fast data return memory controller

A virtual address translation table and an on-chip address cache are usable for translating virtual addresses to physical addresses. Address translation information is provided using a cluster that is associated with some range of virtual addresses and that can be used to translate any virtual address in its range to a physical address, where the sizes of the ranges mapped by different clusters may be different. Clusters are stored in an address translation table that is indexed by virtual address so that, starting from any valid virtual address, the appropriate cluster for translating that address can be retrieved from the translation table. Recently retrieved clusters are stored in an on-chip cache, and a cached cluster can be used to translate any virtual address in its range without accessing the address translation table again.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Dmitry Vyshetsky