Patents by Inventor Yen-Cheng Liu

Yen-Cheng Liu 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).

  • Publication number: 20250225090
    Abstract: A physical layer (PHY) is coupled to a serial, differential link that is to include a number of lanes. The PHY includes a transmitter and a receiver to be coupled to each lane of the number of lanes. The transmitter coupled to each lane is configured to embed a clock with data to be transmitted over the lane, and the PHY periodically issues a blocking link state (BLS) request to cause an agent to enter a BLS to hold off link layer flit transmission for a duration. The PHY utilizes the serial, differential link during the duration for a PHY associated task selected from a group including an in-band reset, an entry into low power state, and an entry into partial width state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Safranek, Robert G. Blankenship, Venkatraman Iyer, Jeff Willey, Robert Beers, Darren S. Jue, Arvind A. Kumar, Debendra Das Sharma, Jeffrey C. Swanson, Bahaa Fahim, Vedaraman Geetha, Aaron T. Spink, Fulvio Spagna, Rahul R. Shah, Sitaraman V. Iyer, William Harry Nale, Abhishek Das, Simon P. Johnson, Yuvraj S. Dhillon, Yen-Cheng Liu, Raj K. Ramanujan, Robert A. Maddox, Herbert H. Hum, Ashish Gupta
  • Patent number: 12339773
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a processor may include an execution engine to execute a plurality of instructions, a memory to store a tagged data structure comprising a plurality of entries, and an eviction circuit. The eviction circuit may be to: generate a pseudo-random number responsive to an eviction request for the tagged data structure; in response to a determination that the pseudo-random number is outside of a valid eviction range for the plurality of entries, generate an alternative identifier by rotating through the valid eviction range, the valid eviction range comprising a range of numbers that are valid to identify victim entries of the tagged data structure; and evict a victim entry from the tagged data structure, the victim entry associated with the alternative identifier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yongmei Zhang, Yedidya Hilewitz, Yen-Cheng Liu
  • Patent number: 12253947
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to programming a memory rule for a home agent, wherein the programming a memory rule for a home agent comprises: receiving at least one memory rule programming and based on a cluster associated with the home agent, configuring a memory rule register using a memory rule programming from among the at least one memory rule programming. In some examples, receiving at least one memory rule programming includes receiving a first memory rule programming and receiving a second memory rule programming. In some examples, a mask is applied to reject the first memory rule programming; and applying the mask to accept the second memory rule programming and program the memory rule for the home agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinit Mathew Abraham, Yen-Cheng Liu
  • Patent number: 12197357
    Abstract: A physical layer (PHY) is coupled to a serial, differential link that is to include a number of lanes. The PHY includes a transmitter and a receiver to be coupled to each lane of the number of lanes. The transmitter coupled to each lane is configured to embed a clock with data to be transmitted over the lane, and the PHY periodically issues a blocking link state (BLS) request to cause an agent to enter a BLS to hold off link layer flit transmission for a duration. The PHY utilizes the serial, differential link during the duration for a PHY associated task selected from a group including an in-band reset, an entry into low power state, and an entry into partial width state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Safranek, Robert G. Blankenship, Venkatraman Iyer, Jeff Willey, Robert Beers, Darren S. Jue, Arvind A. Kumar, Debendra Das Sharma, Jeffrey C. Swanson, Bahaa Fahim, Vedaraman Geetha, Aaron T. Spink, Fulvio Spagna, Rahul R. Shah, Sitaraman V. Iyer, William Harry Nale, Abhishek Das, Simon P. Johnson, Yuvraj S. Dhillon, Yen-Cheng Liu, Raj K. Ramanujan, Robert A. Maddox, Herbert H. Hum, Ashish Gupta
  • Patent number: 12189550
    Abstract: A physical layer (PHY) is coupled to a serial, differential link that is to include a number of lanes. The PHY includes a transmitter and a receiver to be coupled to each lane of the number of lanes. The transmitter coupled to each lane is configured to embed a clock with data to be transmitted over the lane, and the PHY periodically issues a blocking link state (BLS) request to cause an agent to enter a BLS to hold off link layer flit transmission for a duration. The PHY utilizes the serial, differential link during the duration for a PHY associated task selected from a group including an in-band reset, an entry into low power state, and an entry into partial width state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Safranek, Robert G. Blankenship, Venkatraman Iyer, Jeff Willey, Robert Beers, Darren S. Jue, Arvind A. Kumar, Debendra Das Sharma, Jeffrey C. Swanson, Bahaa Fahim, Vedaraman Geetha, Aaron T. Spink, Fulvio Spagna, Rahul R. Shah, Sitaraman V. Iyer, William Harry Nale, Abhishek Das, Simon P. Johnson, Yuvraj S. Dhillon, Yen-Cheng Liu, Raj K. Ramanujan, Robert A. Maddox, Herbert H. Hum, Ashish Gupta
  • Publication number: 20240419616
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for memory access for multi-chiplet system-in-package. Example instructions cause at least one circuit in a system-in-package (SiP) to reserve a region in a memory associated with the SiP for exclusive use by a first die of the SiP apart from a second die of the SiP. For example, the memory is for use by multiple, respective, dies of the SiP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Kapil Sood, Naveen Lakkakula, Lokpraveen Bhupathy Mosur, Vladimir Beker, Yen-Cheng Liu, Filip Schmole, Patrick Fleming, Liron Shacham
  • Publication number: 20240353838
    Abstract: The described positional awareness techniques employing sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to find new area to cover by a robot encountering an unexpected obstacle traversing an area in which the robot is performing an area coverage task. The sensory data are gathered from an operational camera and one or more auxiliary sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: TRIFO, INC.
    Inventors: Zhe ZHANG, Weikai LI, Qingyu CHEN, Yen-Cheng LIU
  • Patent number: 12111783
    Abstract: An interface for coupling an agent to a fabric supports a set of coherent interconnect protocols and includes a global channel to communicate control signals to support the interface, a request channel to communicate messages associated with requests to other agents on the fabric, a response channel to communicate responses to other agents on the fabric, and a data channel to couple to communicate messages associated with data transfers to other agents on the fabric, where the data transfers include payload data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Swadesh Choudhary, Robert G. Blankenship, Siva Prasad Gadey, Sailesh Kumar, Vinit Mathew Abraham, Yen-Cheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20240330053
    Abstract: Techniques for region-aware memory bandwidth allocation control are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a processing core and control circuitry. The processing core is to execute a plurality of threads. The control circuitry is to control use of memory bandwidth per memory region and per thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. Herdrich, Philip Abraham, Priya Autee, Stephen Van Doren, Yen-Cheng Liu, Rajesh Sankaran, Kameswar Subramaniam, Ritesh Parikh
  • Patent number: 12105518
    Abstract: The described positional awareness techniques employing sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to find new area to cover by a robot performing an area coverage task of an unexplored area. The sensory data are gathered from an operational camera and one or more auxiliary sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TRIFO, INC.
    Inventors: Zhe Zhang, Qingyu Chen, Yen-Cheng Liu, Weikai Li
  • Patent number: 11966330
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to processor circuitry to issue a cache coherence message to a central processing unit (CPU) cluster by selection of a target cluster and issuance of the request to the target cluster, wherein the target cluster comprises the cluster or the target cluster is directly connected to the cluster. In some examples, the selected target cluster is associated with a minimum number of die boundary traversals. In some examples, the processor circuitry is to read an address range for the cluster to identify the target cluster using a single range check over memory regions including local and remote clusters. In some examples, issuance of the cache coherence message to a cluster is to cause the cache coherence message to traverse one or more die interconnections to reach the target cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinit Mathew Abraham, Jeffrey D. Chamberlain, Yen-Cheng Liu, Eswaramoorthi Nallusamy, Soumya S. Eachempati
  • Patent number: 11953910
    Abstract: The described positional awareness techniques employing sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to find new area to cover by a robot encountering an unexpected obstacle traversing an area in which the robot is performing an area coverage task. The sensory data are gathered from an operational camera and one or more auxiliary sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Trifo, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Zhang, Weikai Li, Qingyu Chen, Yen-Cheng Liu
  • Patent number: 11899615
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relating to hardware processors with multiple interconnected dies are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes a plurality of physically separate dies, and an interconnect to electrically couple the plurality of physically separate dies together. In another embodiment, a method to create a hardware processor includes providing a plurality of physically separate dies, and electrically coupling the plurality of physically separate dies together with an interconnect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nevine Nassif, Yen-Cheng Liu, Krishnakanth V. Sistla, Gerald Pasdast, Siva Soumya Eachempati, Tejpal Singh, Ankush Varma, Mahesh K. Kumashikar, Srikanth Nimmagadda, Carleton L. Molnar, Vedaraman Geetha, Jeffrey D. Chamberlain, William R. Halleck, George Z Chrysos, John R. Ayers, Dheeraj R. Subbareddy
  • Publication number: 20240012772
    Abstract: A physical layer (PHY) is coupled to a serial, differential link that is to include a number of lanes. The PHY includes a transmitter and a receiver to be coupled to each lane of the number of lanes. The transmitter coupled to each lane is configured to embed a clock with data to be transmitted over the lane, and the PHY periodically issues a blocking link state (BLS) request to cause an agent to enter a BLS to hold off link layer flit transmission for a duration. The PHY utilizes the serial, differential link during the duration for a PHY associated task selected from a group including an in-band reset, an entry into low power state, and an entry into partial width state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Safranek, Robert G. Blankenship, Venkatraman Iyer, Jeff Willey, Robert Beers, Darren S. Jue, Arvind A. Kumar, Debendra Das Sharma, Jeffrey C. Swanson, Bahaa Fahim, Vedaraman Geetha, Aaron T. Spink, Fulvio Spagna, Rahul R. Shah, Sitaraman V. Iyer, William Harry Nale, Abhishek Das, Simon P. Johnson, Yuvraj S. Dhillon, Yen-Cheng Liu, Raj K. Ramanujan, Robert A. Maddox, Herbert H. Hum, Ashish Gupta
  • Patent number: 11860670
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for identifying a memory access resource which is to be a target of an access request. In an embodiment, a processor comprises route tables which are to provide entries corresponding to different respective memory access resources which are coupled to the processor. The processor further comprises a list of items which each correspond to a different respective range of addresses, wherein the items each include an identifier of a respective route table, and an identifier of a respective index offset. Based on an address of the access request, a decoder circuit of the processor searches the list to identify a corresponding one of the items. In another embodiment, the decoder circuit accesses a route table entry, based on the search, to determine how the access request is to be directed to a particular memory access resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Monam Agarwal, Anand K. Enamandram, Wei Chen, Kerry Vander Kamp, Robert A. Branch, Yen-Cheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20230418750
    Abstract: Techniques for hierarchical core valid tracking are described. An example apparatus comprises a cache to store information accessible by two or more cores, and circuitry coupled to the cache to maintain coherence of the information stored in the cache and to hierarchically track respective associations of the information stored in the cache with the two or more cores, where a lowest hierarchical level of the hierarchically tracked associations is to indicate a logical core identifier of a particular core of the two or more cores. Other examples are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yedidya Hilewitz, Monam Agarwal, Yen-Cheng Liu, Alexander Heinecke
  • Publication number: 20230350829
    Abstract: An interface for coupling an agent to a fabric supports a set of coherent interconnect protocols and includes a global channel to communicate control signals to support the interface, a request channel to communicate messages associated with requests to other agents on the fabric, a response channel to communicate responses to other agents on the fabric, and a data channel to couple to communicate messages associated with data transfers to other agents on the fabric, where the data transfers include payload data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Swadesh Choudhary, Robert G. Blankenship, Siva Prasad Gadey, Sailesh Kumar, Vinit Mathew Abraham, Yen-Cheng Liu
  • Patent number: 11805532
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and device performing input bit allocation that includes receiving broadcasting information bits, generating timing related bits for the broadcasting information bits, and selecting a portion of the generated timing related bits. The method and device can further include allocating each of the selected timing related bits to selected input bits of an encoder, so that each of the selected timing related bits is allocated to an input bit of the encoder corresponding to an available bit channel of the encoder where the selected inputs bits of the encoder correspond to encoded bits that are located in a front portion of the encoded bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Wei-De Wu, Chia-Wei Tai, Yen-Cheng Liu
  • Publication number: 20230325241
    Abstract: Embodiments for allocating shared resources are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a core and a hardware rate selector. The hardware rate selector is to, in response to a first indication that demand for memory bandwidth from the core has reached a threshold value, determine a delay value to be used to limit allocation of memory bandwidth to the core. The hardware rate selector includes a controller having a first counter to count a second indication of demand for memory bandwidth from the first core and a second counter to count expirations of time windows. The first indication is based on a difference between the first counter value and the second counter value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew J. HERDRICH, Yen-Cheng LIU, Venkateswara MADDURI, Krishnakumar K. GANAPATHY, Edwin VERPLANKE, Christopher GIANOS, Hanna ALAM, Joseph NUZMAN, Larisa NOVAKOVSKY
  • Patent number: 11774983
    Abstract: The described positional awareness techniques employing sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to find new area to cover by a robot performing an area coverage task of an unexplored area. The sensory data are gathered from an operational camera and one or more auxiliary sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Trifo, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Zhang, Qingyu Chen, Yen-Cheng Liu, Weikai Li