SOFTWARE DEFINED SILICON FEATURE LICENSING

    公开(公告)号:US20210012445A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-14

    申请号:US17033200

    申请日:2020-09-25

    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement software defined silicon feature licensing are disclosed. Example licensor systems disclosed herein includes a third party verifier to verify one or more credentials included in a request to become an authorized delegated licensor, the request received from a third party. Disclosed example licensor systems also include a feature identifier to identify a feature of a silicon structure which the third party is to be granted the authority to license. Disclosed example licensor systems further include a configuration installation code generator to generate feature configuration installation code, the feature configuration installation code to be used by the third party to generate at least a portion of the license, the portion of the license to be used by a licensee to configure the silicon structure to access the licensed feature, and contents of the feature configuration installation code encrypted to prevent access by the authorized delegated licensor.

    Scalable MCTP infrastructure
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11960439B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-16

    申请号:US17690950

    申请日:2022-03-09

    CPC classification number: G06F15/82 G06F21/6218

    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for scalable MCTP infrastructure. A system is split into independent MCTP domains, wherein each MCTP domain uses Endpoint Identifiers (EIDs) for endpoint devices within the MCTP domain in a manner similar to conventional MCTP operations. A new class of MCTP devices (referred to as a Domain Controllers) is provided to enable inter-domain communication and communication with global devices. Global traffic originators or receivers like a BMC (Baseboard Management Controller), Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU), Smart NIC (Network Interface Card), Debugger, or PROT (Platform Root or Trust) discover and establish two-way communication through the Domain Controllers to any of the devices in the target domain(s). The Domain Controllers are configured to implement tunneled connections between global devices and domain endpoint devices. The tunneled connections may employ encapsulated messages with outer and inner headers and/or augmented MCTP messages with repurposed fields used to store source and destination EIDs.

    MANAGEMENT CONTROL MESSAGE ROUTING
    9.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240291786A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-29

    申请号:US18660020

    申请日:2024-05-09

    CPC classification number: H04L51/21 H04L45/02

    Abstract: A management control message is received to be routed from a first device to a second device in a system. The management control message is determined to include management control data. It is determined whether the second device supports such management control messages and it is determined whether to forward the management control message to the second device based on whether the second device supports management control messages. Management control messages are routed to destination devices within the system over a bridge device associated with the management control messages.

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