摘要:
A method and apparatus for enhancing/extending a serial point-to-point interconnect architecture, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) is herein described. Temporal and locality caching hints and prefetching hints are provided to improve system wide caching and prefetching. Message codes for atomic operations to arbitrate ownership between system devices/resources are included to allow efficient access/ownership of shared data. Loose transaction ordering provided for while maintaining corresponding transaction priority to memory locations to ensure data integrity and efficient memory access. Active power sub-states and setting thereof is included to allow for more efficient power management. And, caching of device local memory in a host address space, as well as caching of system memory in a device local memory address space is provided for to improve bandwidth and latency for memory accesses.
摘要:
A master/slave system architecture including a single wire bus and master device and bus interface coupled to the bus. The system further includes slave devices having respective bus interfaces coupled to the bus. The system further includes a communication protocol implemented over the single wire bus and employed by the master and the slave devices. The protocol includes bus transactions for communicating between the master and the slave devices. The communication protocol further includes Master Slave Operational Interface (MSOI) that includes repertoire of functions properties stored in the master device, whereby, the master can communicate with any slave device that supports functions properties that belong to the repertoire of functions properties, using the bus transactions, substantially without need of retrofit.
摘要:
Methods and arrangements for capturing information related to operational conditions are disclosed. Embodiments include volatile memory to quickly record operational parameters via, e.g., basic input output system (BIOS) code, system management interrupt (SMI) code and/or executing applications. Many embodiments provide an alternative power source and a voltage switch to protect against loss of the information between storage in the volatile memory and storage in the non-volatile memory. Some embodiments include a read controller that provides access to the volatile memory when primary power is available. The read controller may also offer direct access to the non-volatile memory in case of a catastrophic failure that renders the processing device substantially non-functional. Further embodiments include a second processing device to generate a usage model and/or to perform diagnostics with the operational parameters.
摘要:
Method and system for periodically measuring the junction temperature of a semiconductor device. The junction is excited by at least two sequential predetermined currents of different magnitudes. The voltage response of the junction to the at least two currents is measured and the temperature of the junction is calculated, while substantially canceling ohmic effects, by using the voltage response and a correction factor. Whenever desired, the junction is excited by a set of at least four sequential different currents having known ratios. The voltage response to the set is measured and the correction factor is calculated by using each voltage response to the set.
摘要:
An apparatus and method is disclosed for providing a fast, low power consumption, detection of at least one depressed key in a resistive matrix keyboard. The common contact of each row of a resistive matrix is connected to a first input of each of a plurality of analog/digital comparators capable of switching between high and low voltage states. A common predetermined reference voltage is applied to a second input of each analog/digital comparator using a digital to analog converter. The output of a analog/digital comparator is in a first state if the voltage level applied to the first input is higher than the reference voltage, and in a second state if the voltage level applied to the first input is lower than the reference voltage. The reference voltage is varied to identify which analog/digital comparator has experienced a change of state.
摘要:
A hardware semaphore is one bit wide. A first hardware circuit detects one of the processes is writing a new value to the semaphore and forces the hardware semaphore to the new value written. A plurality of second hardware circuits are provided. Each second hardware circuit is associated with a separate one of the plurality of processes. Each of the particular second hardware circuit includes a detecting circuit that detects the processor with which the particular second hardware circuit is associated is attempting to write the new value to the semaphore. A circuit responsive to the detecting circuit provides the current value of the semaphore, before the write, to an output of the second particular hardware circuit.
摘要:
An apparatus for an method of sending and receiving data on a Universal Serial Bus using a memory shared among a number of endpoints are disclosed. The memory is a double buffer which allows the next packet to be prepared while the current packet is being transmitted. The invention also supports transmission retry.
摘要:
A processor core for provides a linear extension of addressable memory space of a microprocessor with minimal additional hardware and software complexity. A N+x bit pointer register (e.g. program counter) holds an N+x bit instruction address. The N+x bit instruction address provides to an execution unit a pointer to an instruction in the memory to be processed by the execution unit. An encoder encodes the N+x bit address into an N bit encoding of the N+x bit address. The processor core can thereby address 2.sup.x times more memory locations than 2.sup.N. Two other registers each hold a portion of an data address (i.e. a pointer to a datum in memory to be operated on). An address former concatenates the portions of the address in the two registers to form the data address. Therefore, the address is formed from portions of the data address stored in multiple registers without performing any arithmetic on the portions.
摘要翻译:处理器核心,用于提供微处理器的可寻址存储空间的线性扩展,同时具有最小的附加硬件和软件复杂性。 N + x位指针寄存器(例如程序计数器)保存N + x位指令地址。 N + x位指令地址向执行单元提供指向由执行单元处理的存储器中的指令的指针。 编码器将N + x位地址编码为N + x位地址的N位编码。 因此,处理器核可以处理比2N多两倍的存储单元。 另外两个寄存器分别保存数据地址的一部分(即指向要操作的存储器中的基准的指针)。 地址前缀将两个寄存器中地址的部分连接起来形成数据地址。 因此,地址由存储在多个寄存器中的数据地址的部分形成,而不对这些部分执行任何算术。
摘要:
Methods and apparatus relating to measuring time offsets between devices with independent silicon clocks are described. In some embodiments, logic is provided to synchronize a first clock of a first agent with a second clock of a second agent based on one or more messages exchanged between the first agent and the second agent and a platform time. The first agent and the second agent are coupled via a link. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
摘要:
Disclosed are embodiments for seamless, single-step, and speech-triggered transition of a host processor and/or computing device from a low functionality mode to a high functionality mode in which full vocabulary speech recognition can be accomplished. First audio samples are captured by a low power audio processor while the host processor is in a low functionality mode. The low power audio processor may identify a predetermined audio pattern. The low power audio processor, upon identifying the predetermined audio pattern, triggers the host processor to transition to a high functionality mode. An end portion of the first audio samples that follow an end-point of the predetermined audio pattern may be stored in system memory accessible by the host processor. Second audio samples are captured and stored with the end portion of the first audio samples. Once the host processor transitions to a high functionality mode, multi-channel full vocabulary speech recognition can be performed and functions can be executed based on detected speech interaction phrases.