Nvidia Corporation

Hari Unni Krishnan

Brad W Simeral

David G Reed

Dmitry Vyshetsky

Karl Friedrich Greb

Robert William Chapman

Joshua Titus

Anand Srinivasan

Michael Truog

Mitchell Darren Luban

Krishna Sitaraman

Bhavesh Parekh

Shantanu Sarangi

Roman Surgutchik

Brian Lawrence Smith

Gunaseelan Ponnuvel

Anirban Ghosh

Padam Patt Krishnani

Jyotirmaya Swain

Sreedhar Narayanaswamy

Avinash J V

Michael Alan Ditty

Shraddha Manohar Gondkar

Phanikumar Parvatham

Roman Surgutchick

Hemalkumar Chandrakant Doshi

Diagnostics and boot up for AV hardware and software of a computer system of an autonomous vehicle may be performed based at least on receiving a shutdown or power off indication, then a computing state of the computer system may be suspended with the computer system entering a low-power mode. The suspended computing state can be rapidly restored without requiring a reboot and diagnostics for key-on. To ensure the integrity of the saved computing state, the computer system may exit the low-power mode, rerun the diagnostics, reload the programs, and then reenter the low-power mode. Restoring the suspended computing state may be triggered by a user inserting an ignition key, pressing a button to turn on the vehicle, opening a door to the vehicle, remotely unlocking the vehicle, remotely starting the vehicle, etc.

State suspension for optimizing start-up processes of autonomous vehicles

In various examples, a system includes a memory operating within a first risk level and circuitry operating within a second risk level that indicates more risk than the first risk level. The circuitry reads and/or writes data to a first memory address within the memory, and reads and/or writes an error detection code to a second memory address within the memory.

Transmitting data between regions of varying safety integrity levels in a system on a chip

Latency of in-system test (IST) execution for a hardware component of an in-field (deployed) computing platform may be reduced when a value of a physical operating parameter can be changed without rebooting the computing platform. A test (e.g., patterns or vectors) is executed for varying values of the physical operating parameter (e.g., supply voltage, clock speed, temperature, noise magnitude/duration, operating current, and the like), providing the ability to detect faults in the hardware components.

Hardware-controlled updating of a physical operating parameter for in-field fault detection

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

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San Carlos, CA, United States of America

Hari Unni Krishnan