METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR IN-FIELD TESTING FOR GENERIC DIAGNOSTIC COMPONENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20190051370A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-14

    申请号:US16155606

    申请日:2018-10-09

    申请人: Intel Corporation

    IPC分类号: G11C29/42 G11C29/36

    摘要: The disclosed embodiments relate to method, apparatus and system for testing memory circuitry and diagnostic components designed to test the memory circuitry. The memory may be tested regularly using Memory Built-In Self-Test (MBIST) to detect memory failure. Error Correction Code (ECC)/Parity is implemented for SRAM/Register Files/ROM memory structures to protect against transient and permanent faults during runtime. ECC/Parity encoder and decoder logic detect failure on both data and address buses and are intended to catch soft error or structural fault in address decoding logic in SRAM Controller, where data may be read/written from/to different locations due to faults. ECC/parity logic on the memory structures are subject to failures. In certain exemplary embodiments, an array test controller is used to generate and transmit error vectors to thereby determine faulty diagnostic components. The test vectors may be generated randomly to test the diagnostic components during run-time for in-field testing.

    SCALABLE INFIELD SCAN COVERAGE FOR MULTI-CHIP MODULE FOR FUCTIONAL SAFETY MISSION APPLICATION

    公开(公告)号:US20190049513A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-14

    申请号:US16017764

    申请日:2018-06-25

    申请人: Intel Corporation

    摘要: An apparatus of a multi-chip package (MCP) of a functional safety system, comprises a processor to be configured as a master chip in a master-slave arrangement with a slave chip in the MCP, and a memory coupled to the processor to store one or more infield test scan patterns. The processor includes a bock to couple the master chip to the slave chip via a high-speed input/output (IO) interface to retrieve the one or more infield test scan patterns from the memory via the master chip, and to provide the one or more infield test scan patterns to the slave chip via the high-speed IO interface in response to the functional safety system entering an infield test mode.

    Hardware-based local-state retention fault detection

    公开(公告)号:US11073554B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-27

    申请号:US16586731

    申请日:2019-09-27

    申请人: Intel Corporation

    摘要: Apparatuses of a scan controller include memory and circuitry, where the circuitry is configured to respond to a first signal by sending a second signal to isolate state retention elements from non-state retention elements in a scan chain of power gating circuitry and cycling through the scan chain while obtaining state retention data from the state retention elements during each cycle. The circuitry may be further configured to determine a first error detection code from the state retention data and store the error detection code in the memory. The circuitry may be configured to determine a second error detection code in response to another signal and compare the first error detection code with the second error detection code. The circuitry may be configured to send a signal indicating that the state retention data is corrupted if the first error detection code does not match the second error detection code.

    Aging tolerant system design using silicon resource utilization

    公开(公告)号:US10942880B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-09

    申请号:US16236471

    申请日:2018-12-29

    申请人: Intel Corporation

    IPC分类号: G06F13/40 G06F13/16

    摘要: An integrated circuit for monitoring components of the integrated circuit, comprising: a resource monitoring circuit configured to: track activity factors for a plurality of components of the integrated circuit; evaluate the activity factors for each of the plurality of components; determine whether an activity factor for a particular component of the plurality of components exceeds a threshold; and transmit, from the resource monitoring circuit, a signal to a software element, causing the software element to deactivate the particular component and activate an alternate component, when the activity factor for the particular component exceeds the threshold and the alternate component is available to substitute for the particular component.

    BOOT PROCESS FOR EARLY DISPLAY INITIALIZATION AND VISUALIZATION

    公开(公告)号:US20210004241A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-07

    申请号:US17025350

    申请日:2020-09-18

    申请人: Intel Corporation

    摘要: Embodiments are directed to improving boot process for early display initialization and visualization. An embodiment of a system includes a plurality of processor cores; a cache coupled to the plurality of processor cores; and a controller circuit to: initialize a portion of the cache as static memory for hardware initialization code usage before beginning execution of the hardware initialization code after a power on of the hardware processor; and cause initialization of a display device to be performed using the portion of the cache, the initialization of the display device performed independently of initialization of dynamic memory of the hardware processor.