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).

  • Patent number: 12278217
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Namhoon Kim, Woon-Seong Kwon, Houle Gan, Yujeong Shim, Mikhail Popovich, Teckgyu Kang
  • Publication number: 20250103128
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Houle Gan, Madhusudan K. Iyengar, Michael David Hutton
  • Publication number: 20250006706
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Namhoon Kim, Woon-Seong Kwon, Houle Gan, Yujeong Shim, Mikhail Popovich, Teckgyu Kang
  • Patent number: 12159738
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Chenhao Nan, Houle Gan, Runruo Chen, Qiong Wang, Xin Li
  • Publication number: 20240396447
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Shuai Jiang, Chenhao Nan, Houle Gan, Qiong Wang
  • Publication number: 20240395453
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Chenhao Nan, Houle Gan, Runruo Chen, Qiong Wang, Xin Li
  • Publication number: 20240290763
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Houle Gan, Richard Stuart Roy, Yujeong Shim, William F. Edwards, JR., Chenhao Nan
  • Publication number: 20240203630
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Houle Gan, Shuai Jiang, Gregory Sizikov, Xin Li, Chee Yee Chung
  • Patent number: 12002795
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Houle Gan, Richard Stuart Roy, Yujeong Shim, William F. Edwards, Jr., Chenhao Nan
  • Publication number: 20240120847
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Shuai Jiang, Xin Li, Woon-Seong Kwon, Cheng Chung Yang, Qiong Wang, Nam Hoon Kim, Mikhail Popovich, Houle Gan, Chenhao Nan
  • Publication number: 20240118740
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Houle Gan, Shuai Jiang, Sanjay Nilamboor, Rammohan Padmanabhan, Mohamed Elgebaly
  • Patent number: 11948716
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Houle Gan, Shuai Jiang, Gregory Sizikov, Xin Li, Chee Yee Chung
  • Publication number: 20230402430
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Namhoon Kim, Woon-Seong Kwon, Houle Gan, Yujeong Shim, Mikhail Popovich, Teckgyu Kang
  • Patent number: 11830855
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Namhoon Kim, Woon-Seong Kwon, Houle Gan, Yujeong Shim, Mikhail Popovich, Teckgyu Kang
  • Publication number: 20230335928
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: William F. Edwards, JR., Xu Zuo, Ryohei Urata, Melanie Beauchemin, Woon-Seong Kwon, Shinnosuke Yamamoto, Houle Gan, Yujeong Shim
  • Publication number: 20230335541
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Houle Gan, Richard Stuart Roy, Yujeong Shim, William F. Edwards, JR., Chenhao Nan
  • Publication number: 20230318456
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Chenhao Nan, Qiong Wang, Kaushik Vaidyanathan, Houle Gan, Xin Li
  • Publication number: 20230297152
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Houle Gan, Thomas James Norrie, Gregory Sizikov, Georgios Konstadinidis
  • Patent number: 11720158
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Houle Gan, Thomas James Norrie, Gregory Sizikov, Georgios Konstadinidis
  • Patent number: 11552634
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Houle Gan, Mikhail Popovich, Shuai Jiang, Gregory Sizikov, Chee Yee Chung