公开(公告)号：US09916272B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-13

申请号：US15419443

申请日：2017-01-30

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Chee Lim Nge ,  Tod Schiff ,  Vijayakumar Dibbad ,  Alan Hallberg

IPC: G06F3/00 ,  G06F13/38 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/42

CPC classification number: G06F13/385 ,  G06F13/382 ,  G06F13/4068 ,  G06F13/4282

Abstract: Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having a node to couple to a serial bus, and a controller to provide a control signal to one of a first circuit path and a second circuit path in order to change electrical termination of a signal at the node between a first electrical termination through the first circuit path during a first mode of the controller and a second electrical termination through the second circuit path during a second mode of the controller. The controller can be arranged to provide the control signal to the first and second circuit paths during the first and second modes without providing another control signal from the controller to the first and second circuit paths during the first and second modes.

公开(公告)号：US20170270021A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-21

申请号：US15607322

申请日：2017-05-26

Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION

Inventor： Nitin V. Sarangdhar ,  Mukesh Kataria ,  Chee Lim Nge ,  Basavaraj B. Astekar ,  Karthi R. Vadivelu

IPC: G06F11/30 ,  G06F11/263 ,  G06F13/42

CPC classification number: G06F13/4282

Abstract: A repair engine for a computing platform is separate from the repeatedly-rewritten storage components for software and firmware. For example, the repair engine may reside in ROM or hardware logic. Through dedicated connections to one or more controllers, the repair engine detects when any of the platform's dual-role ports (e.g., on-the-go USB ports) is connected to a host device. The repair engine responds by opening firmware-independent communication with the host device and supporting the downloading and execution (DnX) of a firmware image from the host. Because the communication is initiated independently of the firmware, even a catastrophic firmware failure is repairable without requiring a user to identify and use a specially modified port.