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公开(公告)号:US12253913B2
公开(公告)日:2025-03-18
申请号:US18438802
申请日:2024-02-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Farid Nemati , Steven R. Hutsell , Derek R. Kumar , Bernard J. Semeria , James Vash , Era K. Nangia , Gregory S. Mathews
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to memory error tracking and logging. In some embodiments, a memory cache controller circuitry is configured to track, using multiple circuit entries, numbers of detected correctable errors associated with multiple respective locations, and in response to detecting a threshold number of correctable errors for a particular location, generate a signal to the one or more processors that identifies the particular location. In some embodiments, the memory cache controller circuitry includes multiple circuit entries for tracking uncorrectable errors.
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公开(公告)号:US11934313B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-19
申请号:US17821296
申请日:2022-08-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Per H. Hammarlund , Lior Zimet , James Vash , Gaurav Garg , Sergio Kolor , Harshavardhan Kaushikkar , Ramesh B. Gunna , Steven R. Hutsell
IPC: G06F12/0815 , G06F12/0811 , G06F12/0831 , G06F12/109 , G06F12/128 , G06F13/16 , G06F13/28 , G06F13/40 , G06F15/173 , G06F15/78
CPC classification number: G06F12/0831 , G06F12/0811 , G06F12/0815 , G06F12/109 , G06F12/128 , G06F13/161 , G06F13/1668 , G06F13/28 , G06F13/4068 , G06F15/17368 , G06F15/7807 , G06F2212/305 , G06F2212/657
Abstract: A system including a plurality of processor cores, a plurality of graphics processing units, a plurality of peripheral circuits, and a plurality of memory controllers is configured to support scaling of the system using a unified memory architecture.
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公开(公告)号:US11934265B2
公开(公告)日:2024-03-19
申请号:US17804950
申请日:2022-06-01
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Farid Nemati , Steven R. Hutsell , Derek R. Kumar , Bernard J. Semeria , James Vash , Era K. Nangia , Gregory S. Mathews
CPC classification number: G06F11/1068 , G06F11/076 , G06F11/0772 , G06F11/106
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to memory error tracking and logging. In some embodiments, a memory cache controller circuitry is configured to track, using multiple circuit entries, numbers of detected correctable errors associated with multiple respective locations, and in response to detecting a threshold number of correctable errors for a particular location, generate a signal to the one or more processors that identifies the particular location. In some embodiments, the memory cache controller circuitry includes multiple circuit entries for tracking uncorrectable errors.
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公开(公告)号:US20230161700A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US18151834
申请日:2023-01-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Gaurav Garg , Sagi Lahav , Lital Levy - Rubin , Gerard Williams, III , Samer Nassar , Per H. Hammarlund , Harshavardhan Kaushikkar , Srinivasa Rangan Sridharan , Jeff Gonion , James Vash
IPC: G06F12/06 , G06F12/0891 , G06F9/46 , G06F13/16 , G06F12/0831
CPC classification number: G06F12/063 , G06F12/0891 , G06F9/467 , G06F13/1668 , G06F12/0835
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to an I/O agent circuit of a computer system. The I/O agent circuit may receive, from a peripheral component, a set of transaction requests to perform a set of read transactions that are directed to one or more of a plurality of cache lines. The I/O agent circuit may issue, to a first memory controller circuit configured to manage access to a first one of the plurality of cache lines, a request for exclusive read ownership of the first cache line such that data of the first cache line is not cached outside of the memory and the I/O agent circuit in a valid state. The I/O agent circuit may receive exclusive read ownership of the first cache line, including receiving the data of the first cache line. The I/O agent circuit may then perform the set of read transactions with respect to the data.
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公开(公告)号:US20220334997A1
公开(公告)日:2022-10-20
申请号:US17337805
申请日:2021-06-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Sergio Kolor , Sergio V. Tota , Tzach Zemer , Sagi Lahav , Jonathan M. Redshaw , Per H. Hammarlund , Eran Tamari , James Vash , Gaurav Garg
IPC: G06F13/40 , G06F15/173
Abstract: In an embodiment, a system on a chip (SOC) comprises a semiconductor die on which circuitry is formed, wherein the circuitry comprises a plurality of agents and a plurality of network switches coupled to the plurality of agents. The plurality of network switches are interconnected to form a plurality of physical and logically independent networks. A first network of the plurality of physically and logically independent networks is constructed according to a first topology and a second network of the plurality of physically and logically independent networks is constructed according to a second topology that is different from the first topology. For example, the first topology may a ring topology and the second topology may be a mesh topology. In an embodiment, coherency may be enforced on the first network and the second network may be a relaxed order network.
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公开(公告)号:US20220083472A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-17
申请号:US17315725
申请日:2021-05-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: James Vash , Gaurav Garg , Brian P. Lilly , Ramesh B. Gunna , Steven R. Hutsell , Lital Levy-Rubin , Per H. Hammarlund
IPC: G06F12/0815
Abstract: A scalable cache coherency protocol for system including a plurality of coherent agents coupled to one or more memory controllers is described. The memory controller may implement a precise directory for cache blocks from the memory to which the memory controller is coupled. Multiple requests to a cache block may be outstanding, and snoops and completions for requests may include an expected cache state at the receiving agent, as indicated by a directory in the memory controller when the request was processed, to allow the receiving agent to detect race conditions. In an embodiment, the cache states may include a primary shared and a secondary shared state. The primary shared state may apply to a coherent agent that bears responsibility for transmitting a copy of the cache block to a requesting agent. In an embodiment, at least two types of snoops may be supported: snoop forward and snoop back.
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公开(公告)号:US20220083338A1
公开(公告)日:2022-03-17
申请号:US17469504
申请日:2021-09-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jeff Gonion , John H. Kelm , James Vash , Pradeep Kanapathipillai , Mridul Agarwal , Gideon N. Levinsky , Richard F. Russo , Christopher M. Tsay
IPC: G06F9/30 , G06F12/0875 , G06F12/02
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to data synchronization barrier operations. A system includes a first processor that may receive a data barrier operation request from a second processor include in the system. Based on receiving that data barrier operation request from the second processor, the first processor may ensure that outstanding load/store operations executed by the first processor that are directed to addresses outside of an exclusion region have been completed. The first processor may respond to the second processor that the data barrier operation request is complete at the first processor, even in the case that one or more load/store operations that are directed to addresses within the exclusion region are outstanding and not complete when the first processor responds that the data barrier operation request is complete.
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公开(公告)号:US20250103492A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-27
申请号:US18582305
申请日:2024-02-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Brett S. Feero , Dennis R. Bradford , Gaurav Garg , Jeff Gonion , Bernard J. Semeria , James Vash , Richard F. Russo
IPC: G06F12/0808 , G06F12/0882 , G06F12/1045
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to performing remote cache invalidations. In some embodiments, primary processor circuitry is configured to, based on execution of a remote invalidate instruction (e.g., an ISA-defined instruction), send a cache invalidate command to coprocessor circuitry. The coprocessor circuitry includes coprocessor cache circuitry and cache invalidation control circuitry configured to, in response to the cache invalidate command sent by the primary processor, invalidate one or more cache lines in the coprocessor cache circuitry without executing any instructions on the coprocessor circuitry.
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公开(公告)号:US20240411695A1
公开(公告)日:2024-12-12
申请号:US18739055
申请日:2024-06-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Per H. Hammarlund , Eran Tamari , Lior Zimet , Sergio Kolor , Sergio Tota , Sagi Lahav , James Vash , Gaurav Garg , Jonathan M. Redshaw , Steven R. Hutsell , Harshavardhan Kaushikkar , Shawn M. Fukami
IPC: G06F12/0831 , G06F12/0811 , G06F12/0815 , G06F12/109 , G06F12/128 , G06F13/16 , G06F13/28 , G06F13/40 , G06F15/173 , G06F15/78
Abstract: A system including a plurality of processor cores, a plurality of graphics processing units, a plurality of peripheral circuits, and a plurality of memory controllers is configured to support scaling of the system using a unified memory architecture.
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公开(公告)号:US20230350828A1
公开(公告)日:2023-11-02
申请号:US18309192
申请日:2023-04-28
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Sergio Kolor , Sergio V. Tota , Tzach Zemer , Sagi Lahav , Jonathan M. Redshaw , Per H. Hammarlund , Eran Tamari , James Vash , Gaurav Garg , Lior Zimet , Harshavardhan Kaushikkar , Steven Fishwick , Steven R. Hutsell , Shawn M. Fukami
IPC: G06F15/173 , G06F13/40
CPC classification number: G06F13/4027 , G06F13/4022 , G06F15/17375 , G06F15/17381
Abstract: In an embodiment, a system on a chip (SOC) comprises a semiconductor die on which circuitry is formed, wherein the circuitry comprises a plurality of agents and a plurality of network switches coupled to the plurality of agents. The plurality of network switches are interconnected to form a plurality of physical and logically independent networks. A first network of the plurality of physically and logically independent networks is constructed according to a first topology and a second network of the plurality of physically and logically independent networks is constructed according to a second topology that is different from the first topology. For example, the first topology may a ring topology and the second topology may be a mesh topology. In an embodiment, coherency may be enforced on the first network and the second network may be a relaxed order network.
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