Patents by Inventor Ankur N. Shah

Ankur N. Shah 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).

  • Patent number: 12204487
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to graphics processor data access and sharing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a circuit element to produce a result in processing of an application; a load-store unit to receive the result and generate pre-fetch information for a cache utilizing the result; and a prefetch generator to produce prefetch addresses based at least in part on the pre-fetch information; wherein the load-store unit is to receive software assistance for prefetching, and wherein generation of the pre-fetch information is based at least in part on the software assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Varghese George, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek R. Appu, Niranjan Cooray, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Mike MacPherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, David Puffer, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Ankur N. Shah, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Prasoonkumar Surti, Saurabh Tangri
  • Publication number: 20250004981
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for multi-tile memory management. In an example, a graphics processor includes an interposer, a first chiplet coupled with the interposer, the first chiplet including a graphics processing resource and an interconnect network coupled with the graphics processing resource, cache circuitry coupled with the graphics processing resource via the interconnect network, and a second chiplet coupled with the first chiplet via the interposer, the second chiplet including a memory-side cache and a memory controller coupled with the memory-side cache. The memory controller is configured to enable access to a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) device, the memory-side cache is configured to cache data associated with a memory access performed via the memory controller, and the cache circuitry is logically positioned between the graphics processing resource and a chiplet interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Aravindh Anantaraman, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Valentin Andrei, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Joydeep Ray, Lakshminarayana Striramassarma, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Kamal Sinha, Arthur Hunter, Prasoonkumar Surti, David Puffer, James Valerio, Ankur N. Shah
  • Patent number: 12182062
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for multi-tile memory management. In an example, a graphics processor includes an interposer, a first chiplet coupled with the interposer, the first chiplet including a graphics processing resource and an interconnect network coupled with the graphics processing resource, cache circuitry coupled with the graphics processing resource via the interconnect network, and a second chiplet coupled with the first chiplet via the interposer, the second chiplet including a memory-side cache and a memory controller coupled with the memory-side cache. The memory controller is configured to enable access to a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) device, the memory-side cache is configured to cache data associated with a memory access performed via the memory controller, and the cache circuitry is logically positioned between the graphics processing resource and a chiplet interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Aravindh Anantaraman, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Valentin Andrei, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Joydeep Ray, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Kamal Sinha, Arthur Hunter, Prasoonkumar Surti, David Puffer, James Valerio, Ankur N. Shah
  • Publication number: 20240353912
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of reducing dynamic power consumption within a processor device. One embodiment provides a technique for dynamic link width adjustment based on throughput demand for client of an interconnect fabric. One embodiment provides for a parallel processor comprising an interconnect fabric including a dynamically configurable bus widths and frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammed Tameem, Altug Koker, Kiran C. Veernapu, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, Jonathan Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20240355032
    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: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    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
  • Patent number: 12124310
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for avoiding cache lookup for cold cache. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to collect user information for a user of a data processing device, generate a user profile for the user of the data processing device from the user information, and set a power profile a processor in the data processing device using the user profile. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kiran C. Veernapu, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Kamal Sinha, Eric J. Hoekstra, Wenyin Fu, Nikos Kaburlasos, Bhushan M. Borole, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy
  • Patent number: 12099461
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for multi-tile memory management. In an example, an apparatus comprises a cache memory, a high-bandwidth memory, a shader core communicatively coupled to the cache memory and comprising a processing element to decompress a first data element extracted from an in-memory database in the cache memory and having a first bit length to generate a second data element having a second bit length, greater than the first bit length, and an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) to compare the data element to a target value provided in a query of the in-memory database. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Aravindh Anantaraman, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Valentin Andrei, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Mike Macpherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Joydeep Ray, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Scott Janus, Brent Insko, Vasanth Ranganathan, Kamal Sinha, Arthur Hunter, Prasoonkumar Surti, David Puffer, James Valerio, Ankur N. Shah
  • Patent number: 12094029
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a mask buffer to store a mask, a shader communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a first shader pass, and a resolver communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a resolve pass. The resolver may be configured to exclude a sample location not covered by the mask in the resolve pass. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hugues Labbe, Tomer Bar-On, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, John G. Gierach
  • Publication number: 20240256483
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to graphics processor data access and sharing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a circuit element to produce a result in processing of an application; a load-store unit to receive the result and generate pre-fetch information for a cache utilizing the result; and a prefetch generator to produce prefetch addresses based at least in part on the pre-fetch information; wherein the load-store unit is to receive software assistance for prefetching, and wherein generation of the pre-fetch information is based at least in part on the software assistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Varghese George, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek R. Appu, Niranjan Cooray, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Mike MacPherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, David Puffer, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Ankur N. Shah, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Prasoonkumar Surti, Saurabh Tangri
  • Patent number: 12050502
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of reducing dynamic power consumption within a processor device. One embodiment provides a technique for dynamic link width adjustment based on throughput demand for client of an interconnect fabric. One embodiment provides for a parallel processor comprising an interconnect fabric including a dynamically configurable bus widths and frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Inventors: Mohammed Tameem, Altug Koker, Kiran C. Veernapu, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, Jonathan Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11954783
    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 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    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
  • Patent number: 11934342
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to graphics processor data access and sharing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a circuit element to produce a result in processing of an application; a load-store unit to receive the result and generate pre-fetch information for a cache utilizing the result; and a prefetch generator to produce prefetch addresses based at least in part on the pre-fetch information; wherein the load-store unit is to receive software assistance for prefetching, and wherein generation of the pre-fetch information is based at least in part on the software assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Varghese George, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek R. Appu, Niranjan Cooray, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Mike MacPherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, David Puffer, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Ankur N. Shah, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Prasoonkumar Surti, Saurabh Tangri
  • Publication number: 20230418355
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for avoiding cache lookup for cold cache. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to collect user information for a user of a data processing device, generate a user profile for the user of the data processing device from the user information, and set a power profile a processor in the data processing device using the user profile. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kiran C. Veernapu, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Kamal Sinha, Eric J. Hoekstra, Wenyin Fu, Nikos Kaburlasos, Bhushan M. Borole, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20230410247
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a mask buffer to store a mask, a shader communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a first shader pass, and a resolver communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a resolve pass. The resolver may be configured to exclude a sample location not covered by the mask in the resolve pass. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hugues Labbe, Tomer Bar-On, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, John G. Gierach
  • Publication number: 20230393642
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of reducing dynamic power consumption within a processor device. One embodiment provides a technique for dynamic link width adjustment based on throughput demand for client of an interconnect fabric. One embodiment provides for a parallel processor comprising an interconnect fabric including a dynamically configurable bus widths and frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammed Tameem, Altug Koker, Kiran C. Veernapu, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, Jonathan Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11829525
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to enhance an augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) user experience with environmental information captured from sensors located in one or more physical environments. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to track, by an eye tracker sensor, a gaze of a user, and capture, by the sensors, environmental information. The systems, apparatuses and methods may render feedback, by one or more feedback devices or display device, for a portion of the environment information based on the gaze of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Michael Apodaca, Kai Xiao, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Jeffery S. Boles, Adam T. Lake, James M. Holland, Pattabhiraman K, Sayan Lahiri, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman, Kamal Sinha, Ankur N. Shah, Deepak S. Vembar, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall
  • Patent number: 11797837
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units comprising at least a first type of execution unit and a second type of execution unit and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to analyze a workload and assign the workload to one of the first type of execution unit or the second type of execution unit. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, John C. Weast, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Farshad Akhbari, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Liwei Ma, Jeremy Bottleson, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
  • Publication number: 20230334316
    Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor comprising a memory device and a graphics processing cluster coupled with the memory device. The graphics processing cluster includes a plurality of graphics multiprocessors interconnected via a data interconnect. A graphics multiprocessor includes circuitry configured to load a modular neural network including a plurality of subnetworks, each of the plurality of subnetworks trained to perform a computer vision operation on a separate subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, John C. Weast, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Farshad Akhbari, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Liwei Ma, Jeremy Bottleson, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
  • Patent number: 11768781
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for implementing memory management in a graphics processing system. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a first plurality of graphics processing resources to execute graphics commands and process graphics data; a first memory management unit (MMU) to communicatively couple the first plurality of graphics processing resources to a system-level MMU to access a system memory; a second plurality of graphics processing resources to execute graphics commands and process graphics data; a second MMU to communicatively couple the second plurality of graphics processing resources to the first MMU; wherein the first MMU is configured as a master MMU having a direct connection to the system-level MMU and the second MMU comprises a slave MMU configured to send memory transactions to the first MMU, the first MMU either servicing a memory transaction or sending the memory transaction to the system-level MMU on behalf of the second MMU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Niranjan L. Cooray, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Pattabhiraman K, David Puffer, David J. Cowperthwaite, Rajesh M. Sankaran, Satyeshwar Singh, Sameer Kp, Ankur N. Shah, Kun Tian
  • Patent number: 11763415
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a mask buffer to store a mask, a shader communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a first shader pass, and a resolver communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a resolve pass. The resolver may be configured to exclude a sample location not covered by the mask in the resolve pass. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hugues Labbe, Tomer Bar-On, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, John G. Gierach