Patents by Inventor Houle Gan
Houle Gan 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).
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Patent number: 12278217Abstract: The technology relates to an integrated circuit (IC) package. The IC package may include a packaging substrate, an IC die, and an integrated voltage regulator die. The IC die may include a metal layer and a silicon layer. The metal layer may be connected to the packaging substrate. The integrated voltage regulator die may be positioned adjacent to the silicon layer and connected to the packaging substrate via one or more through mold vias or through dielectric vias. The IC die may be an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) die.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2024Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Namhoon Kim, Woon-Seong Kwon, Houle Gan, Yujeong Shim, Mikhail Popovich, Teckgyu Kang
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Publication number: 20250103128Abstract: Systems and methods for managing power allocation by connecting a power capping control loop to a workload scheduler. The work scheduler may receive a workload for execution by one or more of a plurality of machines, assign the workload to one or more designated machines of the plurality of machines, determine a respective power quota for each of the one or more designated machines, instruct a programmable power capping control loop to control operation of each of the one or more designated machines according to its respective power quota; and update, after assigning the workload to the one or more designated machines, a record indicating (i) available power of a domain including the plurality of machines and/or (ii) available machines within the domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Inventors: Houle Gan, Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Michael David Hutton
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Publication number: 20250006706Abstract: The technology relates to an integrated circuit (IC) package. The IC package may include a packaging substrate, an IC die, and an integrated voltage regulator die. The IC die may include a metal layer and a silicon layer. The metal layer may be connected to the packaging substrate. The integrated voltage regulator die may be positioned adjacent to the silicon layer and connected to the packaging substrate via one or more through mold vias or through dielectric vias. The IC die may be an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) die.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Namhoon Kim, Woon-Seong Kwon, Houle Gan, Yujeong Shim, Mikhail Popovich, Teckgyu Kang
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Patent number: 12159738Abstract: The subject matter described herein provides systems and techniques for the integration of TLVR technology in a vertical power VR module. A multiple-secondary TLVR topology using a controlled leakage inductance in the place of a separate compensation inductor, Lc, may be employed for the vertical power VR module. In addition, the capacitance inside the device to which the TLVR based vertical power VR module supplies power, rather than an output capacitance board, may be used in order to allow the module to be a single layer. Example structures that may include one or more primary windings and/or one or more secondary windings for each of possibly multiple linked phases of the TLVR based module are provided. The windings may be formed using traditional copper windings or printed circuit board (PCB) copper trace winding.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Chenhao Nan, Houle Gan, Runruo Chen, Qiong Wang, Xin Li
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Publication number: 20240396447Abstract: The subject matter described herein provides systems and techniques for the integration of Trans-Induction Voltage regulator (TLVR) technology in a vertical power Voltage Regulator (VR) module. The capacitance inside the device to which the TLVR based vertical power VR module supplies power, rather than an output capacitance board, may be used in order to allow the module to be a single layer. In some instances, output capacitors may be integrated into components of the structures to provide adequate operational capacitance previously provided by the output capacitance board. Example structures may also include a controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2023Publication date: November 28, 2024Inventors: Shuai Jiang, Chenhao Nan, Houle Gan, Qiong Wang
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Publication number: 20240395453Abstract: The subject matter described herein provides systems and techniques for the integration of TLVR technology in a vertical power VR module. A multiple-secondary TLVR topology using a controlled leakage inductance in the place of a separate compensation inductor, Lc, may be employed for the vertical power VR module. In addition, the capacitance inside the device to which the TLVR based vertical power VR module supplies power, rather than an output capacitance board, may be used in order to allow the module to be a single layer. Example structures that may include one or more primary windings and/or one or more secondary windings for each of possibly multiple linked phases of the TLVR based module are provided. The windings may be formed using traditional copper windings or printed circuit board (PCB) copper trace winding.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Inventors: Chenhao Nan, Houle Gan, Runruo Chen, Qiong Wang, Xin Li
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Publication number: 20240290763Abstract: A pluggable processor module includes a microprocessor package, a voltage regulator including a capacitor board, and contact pads that each include a first side in contact with the microprocessor package and a second side in contact with the capacitor board.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2024Publication date: August 29, 2024Inventors: Houle Gan, Richard Stuart Roy, Yujeong Shim, William F. Edwards, JR., Chenhao Nan
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Publication number: 20240203630Abstract: The disclosure relates to power modules that include elevated inductors with capacitors disposed under the inductors. In one aspect, a power module includes a first circuit board having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. One or more inductors are mounted on the first surface. Each of the one or more inductors includes a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface and that faces the first surface of the first circuit board. Each inductor is elevated above the first surface of the first circuit board such that at least a portion of the bottom surface of the inductor does not contact the first surface of the first circuit board. The first circuit board includes capacitors arranged in an area below the portion of the bottom surface of the inductor that does not contact the first surface of the first circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2024Publication date: June 20, 2024Inventors: Houle Gan, Shuai Jiang, Gregory Sizikov, Xin Li, Chee Yee Chung
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Patent number: 12002795Abstract: A pluggable processor module includes a microprocessor package, a voltage regulator including a capacitor board, and contacts that each include a first side in contact with the microprocessor package and a second side in contact with the capacitor board. An assembly includes the pluggable processor module and a printed circuit board assembly (“PCBA”) including a module aperture that is large enough to receive the power board and narrower than the capacitor board.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Houle Gan, Richard Stuart Roy, Yujeong Shim, William F. Edwards, Jr., Chenhao Nan
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Publication number: 20240120847Abstract: A voltage regulator having a multiple of main stages and at least one accelerated voltage regulator (AVR) bridge is provided. The main stages may respond to low frequency current transients and provide DC output voltage regulation. The AVR bridges are switched much faster than the main stages and respond to high frequency current transients without regulating the DC output voltage. The AVR bridge frequency response range can overlap with the main stage frequency response range, and the lowest frequency to which the AVR bridges respond may be set lower than the highest frequency to which the main stages respond.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Shuai Jiang, Xin Li, Woon-Seong Kwon, Cheng Chung Yang, Qiong Wang, Nam Hoon Kim, Mikhail Popovich, Houle Gan, Chenhao Nan
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Publication number: 20240118740Abstract: A method and system of tuning a voltage regulator including receiving, at a voltage regulator, workload information for a workload to be executed by a processor that receives power from the voltage regulator; setting at least one of a load line value for the voltage regulator, a setpoint voltage supplied by the voltage regulator to the processor, or a phase shedding configuration of the voltage regulator based on the workload information; and sending to the processor, after the setting is complete, an acknowledgement signal indicating that the workload can proceed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Houle Gan, Shuai Jiang, Sanjay Nilamboor, Rammohan Padmanabhan, Mohamed Elgebaly
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Patent number: 11948716Abstract: The disclosure relates to power modules that include elevated inductors with capacitors disposed under the inductors. In one aspect, a power module includes a first circuit board having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. One or more inductors are mounted on the first surface. Each of the one or more inductors includes a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface and that faces the first surface of the first circuit board. Each inductor is elevated above the first surface of the first circuit board such that at least a portion of the bottom surface of the inductor does not contact the first surface of the first circuit board. The first circuit board includes capacitors arranged in an area below the portion of the bottom surface of the inductor that does not contact the first surface of the first circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Houle Gan, Shuai Jiang, Gregory Sizikov, Xin Li, Chee Yee Chung
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Publication number: 20230402430Abstract: The technology relates to an integrated circuit (IC) package. The IC package may include a packaging substrate, an IC die, and an integrated voltage regulator die. The IC die may include a metal layer and a silicon layer. The metal layer may be connected to the packaging substrate. The integrated voltage regulator die may be positioned adjacent to the silicon layer and connected to the packaging substrate via one or more through mold vias or through dielectric vias. The IC die may be an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) die.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Namhoon Kim, Woon-Seong Kwon, Houle Gan, Yujeong Shim, Mikhail Popovich, Teckgyu Kang
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Patent number: 11830855Abstract: The technology relates to an integrated circuit (IC) package. The IC package may include a packaging substrate, an IC die, and an integrated voltage regulator die. The IC die may include a metal layer and a silicon layer. The metal layer may be connected to the packaging substrate. The integrated voltage regulator die may be positioned adjacent to the silicon layer and connected to the packaging substrate via one or more through mold vias or through dielectric vias. The IC die may be an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) die.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Namhoon Kim, Woon-Seong Kwon, Houle Gan, Yujeong Shim, Mikhail Popovich, Teckgyu Kang
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Publication number: 20230335928Abstract: An assembly includes a printed circuit board (“PCB”). An aperture extends through the PCB. The assembly also includes an array of pins and a processor package. The array of pins extends around a perimeter of the aperture, and the processor package extends over the aperture. The processor package is pressed against the array of pins by a compressive force couple.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2022Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: William F. Edwards, JR., Xu Zuo, Ryohei Urata, Melanie Beauchemin, Woon-Seong Kwon, Shinnosuke Yamamoto, Houle Gan, Yujeong Shim
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Publication number: 20230335541Abstract: A pluggable processor module includes a microprocessor package, a voltage regulator including a capacitor board, and contact pads that each include a first side in contact with the microprocessor package and a second side in contact with the capacitor board.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2022Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Houle Gan, Richard Stuart Roy, Yujeong Shim, William F. Edwards, JR., Chenhao Nan
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Publication number: 20230318456Abstract: Controlling voltage supplied to a load includes predicting a load current transient, generating a turbo signal in response to predicting the load current transient, and increasing, in response to the turbo signal, responsiveness of a voltage regulator supplying voltage to the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Chenhao Nan, Qiong Wang, Kaushik Vaidyanathan, Houle Gan, Xin Li
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Publication number: 20230297152Abstract: A system contains a machine learning application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and a power supply unit. The power supply unit and the ASIC are configured to be in data communication through dedicated pins on the ASIC and the power supply unit. The power supply unit detects a present power consumption of the ASIC. Upon determining that a threshold condition has been met, the power supply unit, responsive to the condition sends a digital signal to the ASIC. The ASIC contains a synchronizer which synchronizes the digital signal to be consistent with the ASICs internal clock frequency. A chip manager the synchronized signal and other signals to generate a throttling mask. The throttling mask is sent to a sequencer of the ASIC, which then limits the instruction flow into the processing units of the ASIC based on the mask. This in turn limits the power being consumed by the ASIC.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Houle Gan, Thomas James Norrie, Gregory Sizikov, Georgios Konstadinidis
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Patent number: 11720158Abstract: A system contains a machine learning application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and a power supply unit. The power supply unit and the ASIC are configured to be in data communication through dedicated pins on the ASIC and the power supply unit. The power supply unit detects a present power consumption of the ASIC. Upon determining that a threshold condition has been met, the power supply unit, responsive to the condition sends a digital signal to the ASIC. The ASIC contains a synchronizer which synchronizes the digital signal to be consistent with the ASICs internal clock frequency. A chip manager the synchronized signal and other signals to generate a throttling mask. The throttling mask is sent to a sequencer of the ASIC, which then limits the instruction flow into the processing units of the ASIC based on the mask. This in turn limits the power being consumed by the ASIC.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Houle Gan, Thomas James Norrie, Gregory Sizikov, Georgios Konstadinidis
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Patent number: 11552634Abstract: An apparatus that includes an interposer, first power connectors that are disposed on a first surface and that receive respective power inputs from one or more power sources, second power connectors that are disposed on the second surface and that receive a respective third power connecter of an integrated circuit when the integrated circuit is mounted on the second surface of the interposer, a plurality of switches formed within the interposer, control circuitry formed within the interposer, and a sequencer circuit coupled to the control input of the control circuitry and that generates a different values for a control input signal that causes the control logic of the control circuitry to generate a corresponding set of switch signals, and the plurality of different values for the control input signal are generated according to a predefined sequence to provide power to the integrated circuit according to power up sequence.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Houle Gan, Mikhail Popovich, Shuai Jiang, Gregory Sizikov, Chee Yee Chung