For Non-native Instruction Set Architecture (epo) Patents (Class 712/E9.068)
  • Patent number: 10740454
    Abstract: Technologies for USB controller state integrity protection with trusted I/O are disclosed. A computing device includes an I/O controller, a channel identifier filter, and a memory. The I/O controller generates a memory access to controller state data in a scratchpad buffer in the memory. The memory access includes a channel identifier associated with the I/O controller. The channel identifier filter determines whether a memory address of the memory access is included in a range of a processor reserved memory region associated with the channel identifier. A processor of the computing device may copy the controller state data to a memory buffer outside of the processor reserved memory region. The computing device may reserve an isolated memory region in the memory that includes the processor reserved memory region. Secure routing hardware of the computing device may control access to the isolated memory region. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Soham Jayesh Desai, Pradeep Pappachan, Reshma Lal, Siddhartha Chhabra
  • Patent number: 9720733
    Abstract: Methods and systems for routing control blocks is provided. One method includes receiving a control block from a computing device at an adapter having a plurality of hardware engines for processing control blocks, where the control blocks are to read data, write data, obtain status for an input/output request and perform a management task; evaluating the control block by the adapter to determine that the control block is a continuation control block for data transfer using more than one control block; is a direct route control block for a specific hardware engine; or is for a management task; routing the control block to a same hardware engine when the control block is a continuation control block; and routing the control block to a master hardware engine from among the plurality of hardware engines, when the control block is for the management task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: QLOGIC Corporation
    Inventors: Dharma R. Konda, Rajendra R. Gandhi, Ben K. Hui, Bruce A. Klemin
  • Patent number: 8205066
    Abstract: A co-processor is provided that comprises one or more application engines that can be dynamically configured to a desired personality. For instance, the application engines may be dynamically configured to any of a plurality of different vector processing instruction sets, such as a single-precision vector processing instruction set and a double-precision vector processing instruction set. The co-processor further comprises a common infrastructure that is common across all of the different personalities, such as an instruction decode infrastructure, memory management infrastructure, system interface infrastructure, and/or scalar processing unit (that has a base set of instructions). Thus, the personality of the co-processor can be dynamically modified (by reconfiguring one or more application engines of the co-processor), while the common infrastructure of the co-processor remains consistent across the various personalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Convey Computer
    Inventors: Tony Brewer, Steven J. Wallach
  • Patent number: 7788469
    Abstract: A hardware accelerator is used to execute a floating-point byte-code in an information processing device. For a floating-point byte-code, a byte-code accelerator BCA feeds an instruction stream for using a FPU to a CPU. When the FPU is used, first the data is transferred to the FPU register from a general-purpose register, and then an FPU operation is performed. For data, such as a denormalized number, that cannot be processed by the FPU, in order to call a floating-point math library of software, the processing of the BCA is completed and the processing moves to processing by software. In order to realize this, data on a data transfer bus from the CPU to the FPU is snooped by the hardware accelerator, and a cancel request is signaled to the CPU to inhibit execution of the FPU operation when corresponding data is detected in a data checking part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Yamada, Naohiko Irie, Takahiro Irita, Masayuki Kabasawa