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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2017
Applicant:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin Tsien, Fremont, CA (US);

Alexander J. Branover, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);

Alan Dodson Smith, Austin, TX (US);

Chintan S. Patel, Bee Cave, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/06 (2006.01); G06F 1/3296 (2019.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01); G06F 1/3234 (2019.01); G06F 1/3203 (2019.01); G06F 1/3287 (2019.01); G11C 5/02 (2006.01); G11C 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 5/06 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01); G06F 1/3253 (2013.01); G06F 1/3287 (2013.01); G06F 1/3296 (2013.01); G06F 13/4022 (2013.01); G11C 5/02 (2013.01); G11C 5/14 (2013.01); G11C 5/148 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing dynamic control of a multi-region fabric are disclosed. A system includes at least one or more processing units, one or more memory devices, and a communication fabric coupled to the processing unit(s) and memory device(s). The system partitions the fabric into multiple regions based on different traffic types and/or periodicities of the clients connected to the regions. For example, the system partitions the fabric into a stutter region for predictable, periodic clients and a non-stutter region for unpredictable, non-periodic clients. The system power-gates the entirety of the fabric in response to detecting a low activity condition. After power-gating the entirety of the fabric, the system periodically wakes up one or more stutter regions while keeping the other non-stutter regions in power-gated mode. Each stutter region monitors stutter client(s) for activity and processes any requests before going back into power-gated mode.


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