Patents by Inventor Peter VRABEL

Peter VRABEL 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: 11281473
    Abstract: Apparatuses comprising processing circuitry, a first wakeup interrupt controller connected to the processing circuitry via a first interface, and a second wakeup interrupt controller connected to the processing circuitry via a second interface, and methods of operating such apparatuses, are disclosed. Prior to the processing circuitry entering a low power state, information defining at least one wakeup event is transferred from the processing circuitry to a selected wakeup interrupt controller. Whilst the processing circuitry is in the low power state, the selected wakeup interrupt controller receives event indications. If one of these event indications is a defined wakeup event, then the processing circuitry is caused to exit the low power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventor: Peter Vrabel
  • Patent number: 11226828
    Abstract: Apparatuses comprising data processing circuitry and a wakeup interrupt controller and methods of operating the apparatuses are disclosed. Prior to the processing circuitry entering a low power state, indications of pending interrupts are transferred to the wakeup interrupt controller. Further indications of interrupts received whilst the processing circuitry is in the low power state may be accumulated in the wakeup interrupt controller. When the wakeup interrupt controller receives a wakeup signal, the indications of pending interrupts are transferred to the processing circuitry and the processing circuitry exits the low power state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Peter Vrabel, Allan John Skillman
  • Patent number: 11210186
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a non-associative memory comprising a plurality of storage locations, and error recovery storage to store at least one error recovery entry providing a recovery value for a corresponding storage location of the non-associative memory. Control circuitry is responsive to a non-associative memory read request specifying a target address of a storage location of the non-associative memory, when the error recovery storage includes a valid matching error recovery entry for which the corresponding storage location is the storage location identified by the target address, to return the recovery value stored in the valid matching error recovery entry as a response to the non-associative memory read request, instead of information stored in the storage location identified by the target address. This enables the apparatus to continue to function even if hard errors occur in a storage location of the non-associative memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Peter Vrabel, Alan Jeremy Becker
  • Publication number: 20200319896
    Abstract: Apparatuses comprising processing circuitry, a first wakeup interrupt controller connected to the processing circuitry via a first interface, and a second wakeup interrupt controller connected to the processing circuitry via a second interface, and methods of operating such apparatuses, are disclosed. Prior to the processing circuitry entering a low power state, information defining at least one wakeup event is transferred from the processing circuitry to a selected wakeup interrupt controller. Whilst the processing circuitry is in the low power state, the selected wakeup interrupt controller receives event indications. If one of these event indications is a defined wakeup event, then the processing circuitry is caused to exit the low power state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Peter VRABEL
  • Publication number: 20200319895
    Abstract: Apparatuses comprising data processing circuitry and a wakeup interrupt controller and methods of operating the apparatuses are disclosed. Prior to the processing circuitry entering a low power state, indications of pending interrupts are transferred to the wakeup interrupt controller. Further indications of interrupts received whilst the processing circuitry is in the low power state may be accumulated in the wakeup interrupt controller. When the wakeup interrupt controller receives a wakeup signal, the indications of pending interrupts are transferred to the processing circuitry and the processing circuitry exits the low power state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Peter VRABEL, Allan John SKILLMAN
  • Publication number: 20200285550
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a non-associative memory comprising a plurality of storage locations, and error recovery storage to store at least one error recovery entry providing a recovery value for a corresponding storage location of the non-associative memory. Control circuitry is responsive to a non-associative memory read request specifying a target address of a storage location of the non-associative memory, when the error recovery storage includes a valid matching error recovery entry for which the corresponding storage location is the storage location identified by the target address, to return the recovery value stored in the valid matching error recovery entry as a response to the non-associative memory read request, instead of information stored in the storage location identified by the target address. This enables the apparatus to continue to function even if hard errors occur in a storage location of the non-associative memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Peter VRABEL, Alan Jeremy BECKER