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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2017
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eliezer Weissmann, Haifa, IL;
Rinat Rappoport, Haifa, IL;
Michael Mishaeli, Haifa, IL;
Hisham Shafi, Haifa, IL;
Oron Lenz, Haifa, IL;
Jason W. Brandt, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen A. Fischer, Gold River, CA (US);
Bret L. Toll, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Inder M. Sodhi, Folsom, CA (US);
Alon Naveh, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Ganapati N. Srinivasa, Portland, OR (US);
Ashish V. Choubal, Austin, TX (US);
Scott D. Hahn, Portland, OR (US);
David A. Koufaty, Portland, OR (US);
Russel J. Fenger, Beaverton, OR (US);
Gaurav Khanna, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Eugene Gorbatov, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Mishali Naik, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Andrew J. Herdrich, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Abirami Prabhakaran, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Sanjeev S. Sahagirdar, Folsom, CA (US);
Paul Brett, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Paolo Narvaez, Wayland, MA (US);
Andrew D. Henroid, Portland, OR (US);
Dheeraj R. Subbareddy, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A heterogeneous processor architecture and a method of booting a heterogeneous processor is described. A processor according to one embodiment comprises: a set of large physical processor cores; a set of small physical processor cores having relatively lower performance processing capabilities and relatively lower power usage relative to the large physical processor cores; and a package unit, to enable a bootstrap processor. The bootstrap processor initializes the homogeneous physical processor cores, while the heterogeneous processor presents the appearance of a homogeneous processor to a system firmware interface.