Advanced Micro Devices Corporation

Globalfoundries Inc.

Paul Devriendt

Marlin L McGuire

Anthony Andric

David L Wigton

Elsie D Wahlig

David Thanairongroj

David A Keck

Various integrated circuit voltage regulation apparatus and methods of assembling the same are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus is provided that has a stack that includes a heat sink and a semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip has a conductive heat transfer pathway to the heat sink. A voltage regulator member is electrically coupled to the semiconductor chip and coupled to the heat sink, but is not positioned in the stack.

Variable mount voltage regulator

A generic NUMA-compliant memory selection technique is provided to enable a device capable of accessing memory anywhere in a system to select a near (potentially the nearest) memory for use with the device. For example, an AGP controller can access system memory anywhere within a multiprocessing node system, but will operate more efficiently, and interfere less with other data transactions, if it locates the closest memory, determines the memory addresses corresponding to the closest memory, and locks (or otherwise allocates) memory addresses for AGP functionality within the range of determined addresses in the near memory.

Faster memory access in non-unified memory access systems

The present application describes a system and method of profiling a computer system based on a profiling state machine. The profiling state machine defines various states in which the system data can be collected for a particular application. The state machine allows system data collection regardless of timing intervals or event counters. When a state is identified for system data collection, the profiler application collects system data for the user. A profiling application driver monitors the state machine and manages the data collection based on the state machine. The profiling application driver controls the profiling configurations thus allowing a correlated data collection for timing intervals and event counter.

System and method for state-based profiling of multiprocessor systems

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Paul Devriendt