Patents by Inventor Abhishek R. Appu

Abhishek R. Appu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING GRAPHICS PROCESSING PERFORMANCE
    Publication number: 20220051476
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for efficient graphics processing including ray tracing. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises: execution hardware logic to execute graphics commands and render images; an interface to couple functional units of the execution hardware logic to a tiled resource; and a tiled resource manager to manage access by the functional units to the tiled resource, a functional unit of the execution hardware logic to generate a request with a hash identifier (ID) to request access to a portion of the tiled resource, wherein the tiled resource manager is to determine whether a portion of the tiled resource identified by the hash ID exists, and if not, to allocate a new portion of the tiled resource and associate the new portion with the hash ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Sven Woop, Michael J. Doyle, Sreenivas Kothandaraman, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Abhishek R. Appu, Carsten Benthin, Prasoonkumar Surti, Holger GRUEN, Stephen Junkins, Adam Lake, Bret G. Alfieri, Gabor Liktor, Joshua Barczak, Won-Jong Lee
  • CONSOLIDATION OF DATA COMPRESSION USING COMMON SECTORED CACHE FOR GRAPHICS STREAMS
    Publication number: 20220051645
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating consolidated compression/de-compression of graphics data streams of varying types at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes generating a common sector cache relating to a graphics processor. The method may further include performing a consolidated compression of multiple types of graphics data streams associated with the graphics processor using the common sector cache.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Prasoonkumar Surti, Altug Koker, Kiran C. Veernapu, Erik G. Liskay
  • Low granularity coarse depth test efficiency enhancement
    Patent number: 11250539
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus comprises a processor to compute depth values for one or more 4×4 blocks of pixels using 16 source interpolators and 8 destination interpolators on an incoming fragment of pixel data if the destination is in min/max format, and a memory to store a depth test result performed on the one or more 4×4 blocks of pixels. Otherwise the processor is to compute depth values for one or more 8×4 blocks of pixels using 16 source interpolators and 16 destination interpolators if the destination is in plane format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vasanth Ranganathan, Saikat Mandal, Karol A. Szerszen, Saurabh Sharma, Vamsee Vardhan Chivukula, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Prasoonkumar Surti, Altug Koker
  • ADAPTIVE MULTIBIT BUS FOR ENERGY OPTIMIZATION
    Publication number: 20220044656
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to an adaptive multibit bus for energy optimization are described. In an embodiment, a 1-bit interconnect of a processor is caused to select between a plurality of operational modes. The plurality of operational modes comprises a first mode and a second mode. The first mode causes transmission of a single bit over the 1-bit interconnect at a first frequency and the second mode causes transmission of a plurality of bits over the 1-bit interconnect at a second frequency based at least in part on a determination that an operating voltage of the 1-bit interconnect is at a high voltage level and that the second frequency is lower than the first frequency. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sanjeev S. Jahagirdar, Tapan A. Ganpule, Anupama A. Thaploo, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker
  • Source synchronized signaling mechanism
    Patent number: 11237993
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate source synchronous signaling is disclosed. The apparatus includes transfer protocol logic to provide for source synchronous transfer of data within an interconnect fabric, including one or more synchronizers having logic to a transmit data signal and a source clock (clk) signal during the transfer of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Vasanth Ranganathan, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Thread prefetch mechanism
    Patent number: 11232536
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate data prefetching is disclosed. The apparatus includes a memory, one or more execution units (EUs) to execute a plurality of processing threads and prefetch logic to prefetch pages of data from the memory to assist in the execution of the plurality of processing threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adam T. Lake, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Balaji Vembu, Murali Ramadoss, Prasoonkumar Surti, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Subramaniam M. Maiyuran, Eric C. Samson, David J. Cowperthwaite, Zhi Wang, Kun Tian, David Puffer, Brian T. Lewis
  • Memory prefetching in multiple GPU environment
    Patent number: 11232533
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to memory prefetching in multiple GPU environment. An embodiment of an apparatus includes multiple processors including a host processor and multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) to process data, each of the GPUs including a prefetcher and a cache; and a memory for storage of data, the memory including a plurality of memory elements, wherein the prefetcher of each of the GPUs is to prefetch data from the memory to the cache of the GPU; and wherein the prefetcher of a GPU is prohibited from prefetching from a page that is not owned by the GPU or by the host processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek R. Appu, Nicolas Galoppo von Borries, Varghese George, Altug Koker, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran
  • INSTRUCTIONS AND LOGIC TO PERFORM FLOATING POINT AND INTEGER OPERATIONS FOR MACHINE LEARNING
    Publication number: 20220019431
    Abstract: A processing apparatus is provided comprising a multiprocessor having a multithreaded architecture. The multiprocessor can execute at least one single instruction to perform parallel mixed precision matrix operations. In one embodiment the apparatus includes a memory interface and an array of multiprocessors coupled to the memory interface. At least one multiprocessor in the array of multiprocessors is configured to execute a fused multiply-add instruction in parallel across multiple threads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Himanshu Kaul, Mark A. Anders, Sanu K. Mathew, Anbang Yao, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Tatiana Shpeisman, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Kamal Sinha, Balaji Vembu, Nicolas C. Galoppo Von Borries, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Rajkishore Barik, Tsung-Han Lin, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
  • Thread scheduling over compute blocks for power optimization
    Patent number: 11227360
    Abstract: One embodiment provides for a general-purpose graphics processing unit comprising a processing array including multiple compute blocks, each compute block including multiple processing clusters and a thread dispatch unit to dispatch threads of a workload to the multiple compute blocks based on a parallelism metric, wherein the thread dispatch unit, based on the parallelism metric, is to perform one of a first operation and a second operation, the first operation to distribute threads across the multiple compute blocks and the second operation is to concentrate threads within one of the multiple compute blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Balaji Vembu, Joydeep Ray, James A. Valerio, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Compute optimization mechanism for deep neural networks
    Patent number: 11222392
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate compute optimization is disclosed. The apparatus includes a memory device including a first integrated circuit (IC) including a plurality of memory channels and a second IC including a plurality of processing units, each coupled to a memory channel in the plurality of memory channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Narayan Srinivasa, Feng Chen, Joydeep Ray, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Nicolas C. Galoppo Von Borries, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Balaji Vembu, Tsung-Han Lin, Kamal Sinha, Rajkishore Barik, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Justin E. Gottschlich, Altug Koker, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Farshad Akhbari, Dukhwan Kim, Wenyin Fu, Travis T. Schluessler, Josh B. Mastronarde, Linda L. Hurd, John H. Feit, Jeffery S. Boles, Adam T. Lake, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Devan Burke, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Abhishek R. Appu
  • MEMORY ACCESS COMPRESSION USING CLEAR CODE FOR TILE PIXELS
    Publication number: 20220004502
    Abstract: One embodiment provides for a graphics processor comprising a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to cache a first page table entry for a virtual to physical address mapping for use by the graphics processor, the first page table entry to indicate that a first virtual page is a valid page that is cleared to a clear color and graphics pipeline circuitry to bypass a memory access for the first virtual page based on the first page table entry in response to determination that the first virtual page is cleared to the clear color and determine a color associated with the first virtual page without performing a memory access to the first virtual page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Abhishek R. Appu, Kiran C. Veernapu
  • Dynamically Reconfigurable Memory Subsystem For Graphics Processors
    Publication number: 20220005145
    Abstract: By predicting future memory subsystem request behavior based on live memory subsystem usage history collection, a preferred setting for handling predicted upcoming request behavior may be generated and used to dynamically reconfigure the memory subsystem. This mechanism can be done continuously and in real time during to ensure active tracking of system behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Wenyin Fu, Abhishek R. Appu, Bhushan M. Borole, Altug Koker, Nikos Kaburlasos, Kamal Sinha
  • MOTION BIASED FOVEATED RENDERER
    Publication number: 20220005259
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, a sense engine communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to provide sensed information, a focus engine communicatively coupled to the sense engine and the graphics subsystem to provide focus information, a motion engine communicatively coupled to the sense engine, the focus engine, and the graphics subsystem to provide motion information, and a motion biased foveated renderer communicatively coupled to the motion engine, the focus engine, the sense engine to adjust one or more parameters of the graphics subsystem based on one or more of the sense information, the focus information, and the motion information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Atsuo Kuwahara, Hugues Labbe, Sameer KP, Jonathan Kennedy, Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, John H. Feit, Nikos Kaburlasos, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Tomer Bar-On, Carsten Benthin, Adam T. Lake, Vasanth Ranganathan, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Autonomous vehicle advanced sensing and response
    Patent number: 11217040
    Abstract: One embodiment provides for a computing device within an autonomous vehicle, the compute device comprising a wireless network device to enable a wireless data connection with an autonomous vehicle network, a set of multiple processors including a general-purpose processor and a general-purpose graphics processor, the set of multiple processors to execute a compute manager to manage execution of compute workloads associated with the autonomous vehicle, the compute workload associated with autonomous operations of the autonomous vehicle, and offload logic configured to execute on the set of multiple processors, the offload logic to determine to offload one or more of the compute workloads to one or more autonomous vehicles within range of the wireless network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Barath Lakshamanan, Linda L. Hurd, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Liwei Ma, Jingyi Jin, Justin E. Gottschlich, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Michael S. Strickland, Brian T. Lewis, Lindsey Kuper, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Javier S. Turek, Naila Farooqui
  • On demand MSAA resolve during lens correction and/or other post-processing phases
    Patent number: 11216915
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that identifies, at an image post-processor, unresolved surface data and identifies, at the image post-processor, control data associated with the unresolved surface data. Additionally, the technology may resolve, at the image post-processor, the unresolved surface data and the control data into a final image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomer Bar-On, Hugues Labbe, Adam T. Lake, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, Johannes Guenther, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Deepak S. Vembar, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall
  • Graphics system with additional context
    Patent number: 11217004
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, and a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor. The graphics subsystem may include a first graphics engine to process a graphics workload, and a second graphics engine to offload at least a portion of the graphics workload from the first graphics engine. The second graphics engine may include a low precision compute engine. The system may further include a wearable display housing the second graphics engine. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuo Kuwahara, Deepak S. Vembar, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman, Brent E. Insko, Anupreet S. Kalra, Hugues Labbe, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Prasoonkumar Surti, Murali Ramadoss
  • Interconnect fabric link width reduction to reduce instantaneous power consumption
    Patent number: 11209892
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of reducing dynamic power consumption within a processor device. One embodiment provides a technique for dynamic link width reduction based on the instantaneous throughput demand for client of an interconnect fabric. One embodiment provides for a parallel processor comprising an interconnect fabric including a dynamic bus module to configure a bus width for a client of the interconnect fabric based on throughput demand from the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammed Tameem, Altug Koker, Kiran C. Veernapu, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, Jonathan Kennedy
  • Engine to enable high speed context switching via on-die storage
    Patent number: 11210265
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units, and a first memory communicatively couple to the plurality of execution units, wherein the first shared memory is shared by the plurality of execution units and a copy engine to copy context state data from at least a first of the plurality of execution units to the first shared memory. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Prasoonkumar Surti, David Puffer, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Tomer Bar-On, Andrew T. Lauritzen, Hugues Labbe, John G. Gierach, Gabor Liktor
  • CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK OPTIMIZATION MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20210397925
    Abstract: A library of machine learning primitives is provided to optimize a machine learning model to improve the efficiency of inference operations. In one embodiment a trained convolutional neural network (CNN) model is processed into a trained CNN model via pruning, convolution window optimization, and quantization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Liwei Ma, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Barath Lakshmanan, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Jingyi Jin, Jeremy Bottleson, Mike B. Macpherson, Kevin Nealis, Dhawal Srivastava, Joydeep Ray, Ping T. Tang, Michael S. Strickland, Xiaoming Chen, Anbang Yao, Tatiana Shpeisman, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu
  • DISPLAY ENGINE SURFACE BLENDING AND ADAPTIVE TEXEL TO PIXEL RATIO SAMPLE RATE SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20210398250
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to blend two or more of the scene surfaces based on the focus area and an offload threshold. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to blend, by a display engine, two or more of the focus area scene surfaces and blended non-focus area scene surfaces. The systems, apparatuses and methods may include a graphics engine to render the focus area surfaces at a higher sample rate than the non-focus area scene surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, John H. Feit, Nikos Kaburlasos, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Abhishek R. Appu, Balaji Vembu, Prasoonkumar Surti