Patents by Inventor Hisham Hafi

Hisham Hafi 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 IMPLEMENT A MULTI-LEVEL MEMORY HIERARCHY
    Publication number: 20140298140
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for detecting and correcting instruction fetch errors within a processor core. For example, in one embodiment, an instruction processing apparatus for detecting and recovering from instruction fetch errors comprises, the instruction processing apparatus performing the operations of: detecting an error associated with an instruction in response to an instruction fetch operation; and determining if the instruction is from a speculative access, wherein if the instruction is not from a speculative access, then responsively performing one or more operations to ensure that the error does not corrupt an architectural state of the processor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Theodros Yigzaw, Oded Lempel, Hisham Hafi, Geeyarpuram N Santhanakrisnan, Jose A Vargas, Ganapati N Srinivasa, Mohan J Kumar, Larisa Novakovsky, Lihu Rappoport, Chen Koren, Julius Yuli Mandelblat