Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for write-only inter-processor reset synchronization
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Application No.: US14576019Application Date: 2014-12-18
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Publication No.: US09678808B2Publication Date: 2017-06-13
- Inventor: Michael Berger , Khee Wooi Lee , Mukesh Kataria
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00 ; G06F9/44 ; G06F9/46 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F9/52 ; G06F15/17 ; G06F15/173 ; G06F11/00

Abstract:
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for performing write-only inter processor reset synchronization. In one embodiment, the processing unit comprises: a communication unit to transmit information to the second processing unit; memory to store reset synchronization information and message information; and processing logic to perform write-only reset synchronization between itself and the second processing unit based on bit indications set in the memory.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160179585A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WRITE-ONLY INTER-PROCESSOR RESET SYNCHRONIZATION Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
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