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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mikal C. Hunsaker, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Shaun M. Conrad, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Zhenyu Zhu, Folsom, CA (US);
Navtej Singh, Folsom, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 13/362 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4282 (2013.01); G06F 13/362 (2013.01); G06F 13/4068 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embedded controller is provided for a computer, including a processor, first one or more logic elements providing a serial peripheral interface (SPI) module to communicatively couple the embedded controller to an SPI bus as an SPI slave, and second one or more logic elements providing a platform environment control interface (PECI)-over-SPI engine, to build an SPI packet providing an encapsulated PECI command and send a notification to an SPI master that the packet is available.