Qualcomm Incorporated

Apple Inc.

Other

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.

Sergio Kolor

Lior Zimet

James Vash

Per Hakan Hammarlund

Harshavardhan Kaushikkar

Gaurav Garg

Ron Nevo

Sagi Lahav

Michael Vakulenko

Shlomo Nizri

Atai Levy

Steven R Hutsell

Shawn Munetoshi Fukami

Igor Malamant

Eran Tamari

Dany Davidov

Nir Leshem

Mark Pilip

Yoram Rimoni

Jonathan M Redshaw

Tzach Zemer

Liron Manor

Sergio V Tota

Steven John Fishwick

Lital Levy-Rubin

Michael Green

Vinod Harimohan Kaushik

Opher D Kahn

Jeffry E Gonion

Alecsander Petru Eitan

Nikhil Jain

Gerard Richard Williams

Sandeep Kumar Gupta

Ramesh B Gunna

Jeremy M Stein

Ilya Granovsky

Qiuzhen Zou

Srinivasa Rangan Sridharan

Tal Kuzi

Nir Gerber

Gilad Bornstein

Ilan Kessler

Andrew Timothy Hunter

Charles E Tucker

Nabeel Achlaug

Raghavendar Bhavansikar

Dror Shindelman

Dan Vardi

Boaz E Bryger

Dedy Lansky

Uri Benchetrit

Boaz Bryger

Aviv Asulin

Oren Bar

Dan Darel

Roi Uziel

In an embodiment, a system includes a plurality of integrated circuits have subsets of a plurality of agents. The plurality of integrated circuits may have network segments implemented wholly (e.g., entirely) within the respective integrated circuits and may have segment to segment (S2S) network interface circuits to couple to other network segments of a plurality of network segment forming a network among the plurality of agents.

Segment to segment network interface

An apparatus includes first agents configured to transfer transactions using an ordered protocol, as well as second agents configured to transfer transactions using a protocol with no enforced ordering. The apparatus may also include input/output (I/O) interfaces coupled to respective ones of the first agents and configured to enforce the ordered protocol. The apparatus may further include a communication network including a plurality of network switches. A particular one of the network switches may be coupled to at least one other network switch of the plurality. The apparatus may also include a network interface coupled to the second agents, to the I/O interfaces, and to the particular network switch. This network interface may be configured to transfer data transactions between the second agents and the particular network switch, and to transfer data transactions between the I/O interfaces and the particular network switch.

Communication fabric structures for increased bandwidth

A system including a plurality of processor cores, a plurality of graphics processing units, a plurality of peripheral circuits, and a plurality of memory controllers is configured to support scaling of the system using a unified memory architecture.

Scalable system on a chip

Techniques are disclosed pertaining to utilizing a communication fabric via multiple ports. An agent circuit includes a plurality of command-and-data ports that couple the agent circuit to a communication fabric coupled to a plurality of hardware components that includes a plurality of memory controller circuits that facilitate access to a memory. The agent circuit can execute an instruction that involves issuing a command for data stored at the memory. The agent circuit may perform a hash operation on a memory address associated with the command to determine which one of the plurality of memory controller circuits to which to issue the command. The agent circuit issues the command to the determined memory controller circuit on a particular one of the plurality of command-and-data ports that is designated to the memory controller circuit. The agent circuit may issue all commands destined to that memory controller circuit on that port.

Mechanisms to utilize communication fabric via multi-port architecture

A system includes a first instance and a second instance of an integrated circuit. The integrated circuits include respective external interfaces with a physical pin layout having transmit and receive pins for a particular bus located in complementary positions relative to an axis of symmetry. The external interfaces of the first and second instances of the integrated circuit are positioned such that the transmit and receive pins for the given I/O signal on the first instance are aligned, respectively, with the receive and transmit pins for the given I/O signal on the second instance.

Complementary die-to-die interface

An apparatus includes an interface circuit and an encoder circuit. The interface circuit is configured to send a data packet via a plurality of segments, and to send an idle value via the plurality of segments when no data packet is available. The idle value is configured to cause a segment in a receiving apparatus to idle. The encoder circuit is configured to receive a particular data packet, and, if a portion of the particular data packet has a same value as the idle value for a subset of the plurality of segments, to replace at least a portion of the data packet with a mask value to generate a modified data packet. The mask value indicates how to recreate the particular data packet. The encoder circuit is further configured to send the modified data packet to the receiving apparatus via the plurality of segments of the interface circuit.

Data encoding and packet sharing in a parallel communication interface

An integrated circuit (IC) including a plurality of processor cores, a plurality of graphics processing units, a plurality of peripheral circuits, and a plurality of memory controllers is configured to support scaling of the system using a unified memory architecture. For example, the IC may include an interconnect fabric configured to provide communication between the one or more memory controller circuits and the processor cores, graphics processing units, and peripheral devices; and an off-chip interconnect coupled to the interconnect fabric and configured to couple the interconnect fabric to a corresponding interconnect fabric on another instance of the integrated circuit, wherein the interconnect fabric and the off-chip interconnect provide an interface that transparently connects the one or more memory controller circuits, the processor cores, graphics processing units, and peripheral devices in either a single instance of the integrated circuit or two or more instances of the integrated circuit.

In an embodiment, a system on a chip (SOC) comprises a semiconductor die on which circuitry is formed, wherein the circuitry comprises a plurality of agents and a plurality of network switches coupled to the plurality of agents. The plurality of network switches are interconnected to form a plurality of physical and logically independent networks. A first network of the plurality of physically and logically independent networks is constructed according to a first topology and a second network of the plurality of physically and logically independent networks is constructed according to a second topology that is different from the first topology. For example, the first topology may a ring topology and the second topology may be a mesh topology. In an embodiment, coherency may be enforced on the first network and the second network may be a relaxed order network.

Multiple independent on-chip interconnect

In an embodiment, a system on a chip (SOC) comprises a semiconductor die on which circuitry is formed, wherein the circuitry comprises a memory controller circuit and a plurality of networks formed from a plurality of individual network component circuits. The memory controller includes a PIO message control circuit that is configured to receive PIO messages addressed to individual network component circuits and determine whether to send the PIO messages to the individual network component circuits based on determine whether previous PIO messages are pending for the individual network component circuits. The PIO message control circuit is configured to delay a first PIO message at the PIO message control circuit in response to determining that previous PIO message is pending for the addressee of the first PIO message.

Programmed input/output message control circuit

A device and method for communicating, via a memory-mapped communication path, between a host processor and a cellular-communication modem are disclosed. The method includes providing logical channels over the memory-mapped communication path and transporting data organized according to one or more cellular communication protocols over at least one of the logical channels. In addition, the method includes acknowledging when data transfer occurs between the host processor and the cellular-communication modem, issuing commands between the host processor and the cellular-communication modem, and communicating and managing a power state via one or more of the logical channels.

Hardware accelerated communications over a chip-to-chip interface

Fast link training in embedded systems is disclosed. In one aspect, a host takes advantage of situations in which the host is coupled to one or more static devices through a communication bus. In particular, because the one or more devices are static, the host may be provided with information about the one or more devices before start up, so that when the host does perform a start up, the host already knows which device(s) to expect. Accordingly, the host may directly query the expected device(s), and after receipt of response(s) from the expected device(s), may begin link training the expected device(s). By using the provided information about the expected device(s) in this fashion, the host may bypass or skip an initial signal detection step used by conventional link training processes. Bypassing the initial signal detection step may save time, which in turn saves power.

Fast link training in embedded systems

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