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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2011
Steven S. Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Anshuman Thakur, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ramacharan Charan Sundararaman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ramon Matas, Portland, OR (US);
Steven S. Chang, San Jose, CA (US);
Anshuman Thakur, Beaverton, OR (US);
Ramacharan Charan Sundararaman, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ramon Matas, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure is directed to use of shared initialization and configuration vectors, which are delivered to processing cores in a multi-core processor using packets. An initialization core may include reset logic that may read initialization and configuration vectors from a centralized storage location, which may be on a die containing the processing cores (e.g., a fuse, etc.), off the die (e.g., in volatile memory, flash memory, etc.), or a combination of both. The initialization core may then generate packets to transmit the initialization and configuration vectors to processing cores that await initialization (e.g., following a reset). In some instances, the initialization and configuration vector information may be shared by two or more cores of a same type.