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公开(公告)号：US20200319876A1
公开(公告)日：2020-10-08
申请号：US16829280
申请日：2020-03-25
Applicant: STMicroelectronics Application GMBH
Inventor： Roberto Colombo
Abstract: A processing system includes a digital processing unit, one or more non-volatile memories configured to store a firmware to be executed by the digital processing unit, a diagnostic circuit configured to execute a self-test operation of the processing system in response to a diagnostic mode enable signal, and a reset circuit. The reset circuit is configured to perform a complex reset of the processing system by generating a first reset of the processing system in response to a given event and generating a second reset of the processing system once the self-test operation has been executed. The processing system is configured to set the diagnostic mode enable signal in response to the first reset, thereby activating execution of the self-test operation.
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公开(公告)号：US20190272211A1
公开(公告)日：2019-09-05
申请号：US16289425
申请日：2019-02-28
Applicant: STMicroelectronics Application GMBH
Inventor： Roberto Colombo
IPC: G06F11/07
Abstract: A processing system includes a processing unit configured to be connected to a memory with error detection and/or correction. The processing unit generates at least one read request for reading data from the memory, the read request including an address signal identifying an address of a given memory area in the memory. The processing system includes an error handling circuit connected to the memory for receiving an error signal containing an error code indicating whether the data read from the memory contains errors. The error handling circuit includes a hardware circuit configured to set a first error signal to the error code of the error signal when the address indicated by the address signal belongs to a first address range and to set a second error signal to the error code of the error signal when the address indicated by the address signal belongs to a second address range.
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公开(公告)号：US20180329774A1
公开(公告)日：2018-11-15
申请号：US15975507
申请日：2018-05-09
Inventor： Roberto Colombo , Nicolas Bernard Grossier , Roberta Vittimani
Abstract: In some embodiments, a processing system includes at least one hardware block configured to change operation as a function of configuration data, a non-volatile memory including the configuration data for the at least one hardware block, and a configuration module configured to read the configuration data from the non-volatile memory and provide the configuration data read from the non-volatile memory to the at least one hardware block. The configuration module is configured to: receive mode configuration data; read the configuration data from the non-volatile memory; test whether the configuration data contain errors by verifying whether the configuration data are corrupted and/or invalid; and activate a normal operation mode or an error operation mode based on whether the configuration data contain or do not contain errors.
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公开(公告)号：US12118376B2
公开(公告)日：2024-10-15
申请号：US17235206
申请日：2021-04-20
Inventor： Deepak Baranwal , Amritanshu Anand , Roberto Colombo , Boris Vittorelli
CPC classification number: G06F9/45558 , G06F9/455 , G06F9/45533 , G06F9/48 , G06F9/4812 , G06F9/4843 , G06F9/485 , G06F9/4856 , G06F9/4881 , G06F9/50 , G06F9/5083 , G06F9/5088 , G06F2009/4557 , G06F2009/45575
Abstract: Disclosed herein is hardware for easing the process of changing the execution mode of a virtual machine and its associated resources. By adopting the hardware, it is possible to trigger a change in the execution mode in an automatic way, without software intervention, and without interfering with the execution of other virtual machines. In addition, in case an error has occurred for a virtual machine and it is detected, the hardware can be used to disable the resources associated with that virtual machine and generate notification of the completion this operation to other hardware, which will complete the reset of the virtual machine. By adopting the hardware, the execution mode change is simplified and offers configurability and flexibility for a system running multiple virtual machines.
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公开(公告)号：US12068048B2
公开(公告)日：2024-08-20
申请号：US17815807
申请日：2022-07-28
Inventor： Vivek Mohan Sharma , Roberto Colombo
CPC classification number: G11C29/42 , G11C29/36 , G11C29/48 , G11C2029/3602
Abstract: A processing system includes an error detection circuit configured to receive data bits and ECC bits, calculate further ECC bits as a function of the data bits, and generate a syndrome by comparing the calculated ECC bits with the received ECC bits. When the syndrome corresponds to one of N+K single bit-flip reference syndromes, the error detection circuit asserts a first error signal, and asserts one bit of a bit-flip signature corresponding to a single bit-flip error indicated by the respective single bit-flip reference syndrome.
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公开(公告)号：US12019118B2
公开(公告)日：2024-06-25
申请号：US18186549
申请日：2023-03-20
Inventor： Roberto Colombo , Vivek Mohan Sharma , Samiksha Agarwal
IPC: G01R31/317
CPC classification number: G01R31/31703 , G01R31/31722
Abstract: In an embodiment a processing system includes a test circuit configured to set an address value, an upper address limit and a lower address limit to a given reference bit sequence, verify whether the upper-limit comparison signal has a respective third logic level and/or whether the lower-limit comparison signal has the respective third logic level, assert an error signal in response to determining that the upper-limit comparison signal does not have the respective third logic level or the lower-limit comparison signal does not have the respective third logic level, repeat a certain operation for each of the N bits.
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公开(公告)号：US20230409341A1
公开(公告)日：2023-12-21
申请号：US18312237
申请日：2023-05-04
Inventor： Asif Rashid Zargar , Roberto Colombo
IPC: G06F9/4401 , G06F21/64
CPC classification number: G06F9/4405 , G06F21/64
Abstract: In embodiments, a reset management circuit executes reset, configuration, and software runtime phases when a processing system is switched on, where one or more microprocessors start at respective start addresses. During the configuration phase, a circuit reads a boot record from a non-volatile memory and stores it to registers. The circuit sequentially reads data records of configuration data from the non-volatile memory and generates a write request for each data record to store the data of the respective data record to a second circuit with associated address data indicated in the respective data record. The processing system processes the boot record and boot configuration data provided by the second circuits to selectively start a predetermined microprocessor at a default start address or at a start address indicated by the boot configuration data, or start one or more microprocessors at respective start addresses as indicated by the boot record.
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公开(公告)号：US20230385215A1
公开(公告)日：2023-11-30
申请号：US18364786
申请日：2023-08-03
Applicant: STMicroelectronics Application GMBH
Inventor： Rolf Nandlinger , Roberto Colombo
CPC classification number: G06F13/28 , G06F9/30105 , G06F21/72 , G06F13/4282 , G06F21/602 , G06F9/3877
Abstract: In an embodiment, a processing system comprises a microprocessor programmable via software instructions, a memory controller configured to be coupled to a memory, a communication system coupling the microprocessors to the memory controller, a cryptographic co-processor and a first communication interface. The processing system also comprises first and second configurable DMA channels. In a first configuration, the first DMA channel is configured to transfer data from the memory to the cryptographic co-processor, and the second DMA channel is configured to transfer the encrypted data via two loops from the cryptographic co-processor to the first communication interface. In a second configuration, the second DMA channel is configured to transfer received data via two loops from the first communication interface to the cryptographic co-processor, and the first DMA channel is configured to transfer the decrypted data from the cryptographic co-processor to the memory.
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公开(公告)号：US20230314506A1
公开(公告)日：2023-10-05
申请号：US18186624
申请日：2023-03-20
Inventor： Roberto Colombo , Vivek Mohan Sharma
IPC: G01R31/317 , G01R31/3185
CPC classification number: G01R31/31721 , G01R31/31724 , G01R31/318566
Abstract: In an embodiment a processing system includes a reset circuit configured to receive a reset-request signal and one or more further reset-request signals, wherein the one or more further reset-request signals are provided by a processing core, one or more further circuits and/or a terminal of the processing system and to generate a combined reset-request signal by combining the reset-request signal and the one or more further reset-request signals, and a hardware test circuit including for each of the one or more further reset-request signals, a respective first combinational circuit configured to selectively assert the respective further reset-request signal, a second combinational logic circuit configured to selectively mask the combined reset-request signal, and a control circuit configured to repeat operations during a diagnostic phase.
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公开(公告)号：US11474752B2
公开(公告)日：2022-10-18
申请号：US16932426
申请日：2020-07-17
Applicant: STMicroelectronics Application GmbH
Inventor： Roberto Colombo
Abstract: A processing system comprises a processing unit, a hardware block configured to change operation as a function of life cycle data, and a one-time programmable memory storing original life cycle data. A hardware configuration module is configured to read the original life cycle data from the one-time programmable memory, to store the original life cycle data in a register, to receive a write request from the processing unit, and to selectively execute the write request to overwrite the original life cycle data with new life cycle data in the register.
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