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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apoorv Gupta, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ryan Speiser, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Varun Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Tony Cheng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Erik Zuroski, Saint Louis Park, MN (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A secure reconfigurable operating mode system includes a hardware device having multiple operating modes and an operating mode selector that is coupled to the hardware device. The operating mode selector has a virtual fusing register that selects an operating mode for the hardware device and a security processor that enables a secure virtual fusing based on documented security files authorizing selection of the operating mode. A method of secure hardware device operating mode reconfiguration is also provided.