Lsi Corporation

Intel Corporation

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Nasima Parveen

Fabrice Paillet

Ho-Ming Leung

Jason Seung-Min Kim

Robert K Yu

Kursad Kiziloglu

J Arjun Prabhu

Nitin N Garegrat

Andrew Yang

Ka-Shu Ko

Venkatesh Balasubramanian

David Y Fang

Dmitry Sergeyevich Lukiyanchenko

Anitha Loke

Embodiments include a method comprising identifying, by an instruction scheduler of a processor core, a first high power instruction in an instruction stream to be executed by an execution unit of the processor core. A pre-charge signal is asserted indicating that the first high power instruction is scheduled for execution. Subsequent to the pre-charge signal being asserted, a voltage boost signal is asserted to cause a supply voltage for the execution unit to be increased. A busy signal indicating that the first high power instruction is executing is received from the execution unit. Based at least in part on the busy signal being asserted, de-asserting the voltage boost signal. More specific embodiments include decreasing the supply voltage for the execution unit subsequent to the de-asserting the voltage boost signal. More Further embodiments include delaying asserting the voltage boost signal based on a start delay time.

Proactive Di/Dt voltage droop mitigation

An apparatus comprising a mode circuit and an encryption circuit. The mode circuit may be configured to selectively provide register input data on an output signal when in a first mode and memory data on the output signal when in a second mode. The encryption circuit may be configured to interchangeably encrypt/decrypt between the register input data and the memory data.

Dual mode AES implementation to support single and multiple AES operations

An apparatus comprising an oscillator circuit, a control circuit, a counter circuit and a detector circuit. The oscillator circuit may be configured to generate an output signal oscillating at a particular frequency in response to a control signal. The control circuit may be configured to generate the control signal in response to a first error signal and a second error signal. The counter circuit may be configured to generate the first error signal in response to the output signal and an input signal. The detector circuit may be configured to generate the second error signal in response to the output signal and the input signal.

Low jitter and/or fast lock-in clock recovery circuit

Quotient digit selection logic is modified so as to prevent a partial remainder equal to the negative divisor from occurring. An enhanced quotient digit selection function prevents the working partial remainder from becoming negative if the result is exact, choosing a quotient digit of zero instead of a quotient digit of one when the actual partial remainder is zero. Using a five bit estimated partial remainder where the upper four bits are zero, a possible carry propagation into fourth most significant bit is detected. This can be accomplished by looking at the fifth most significant sum and carry bits of the redundant partial remainder. If they are both zero, then a carry propagation out of that bit position into the least significant position of the estimated partial remainder is not possible, and a quotient digit of zero is chosen. This provides a one cycle savings since negative partial remainders no longer need to be restored before calculating the sticky bit. Extra hardware is eliminated because it is no longer necessary to provide any extra mechanism for restoring the preliminary final partial remainder. Latency is improved because no additional cycle time is required to restore negative preliminary partial remainders. In an alternative embodiment, where the upper four bits of the estimated partial remainder are ones while the fifth most significant bit is zero, a quotient digit of negative one is chosen. This alternative embodiment allows correct exact results in all rounding modes including rounding toward plus or minus infinity.

Quotient digit selection logic for floating point division/square root

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Nasima Parveen