| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090003335 | Device, System and Method of Fragmentation of PCI Express Packets - Device, system and method of fragmentation of PCI Express packets. For example, an apparatus includes a credit-based flow control interconnect device to fragment a Transaction Layer Packet into a stream of micro-packets, wherein the stream comprises an initial micro-packet and one or more continuation micro-packets. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006711 | Device, System and Method of Utilizing PCI Express Packets Having Modified Headers - Device, system, and method of utilizing PCI Express packets having modified headers. For example, an apparatus includes a credit-based flow control interconnect device to generate a credit-based flow control interconnect Transaction Layer Packet in which one or more bits of an ID field carry non-ID data. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006932 | Device, System and Method of Modification of PCI Express Packet Digest - Device, system and method of modification of PCI Express packet digest. For example, an apparatus includes a credit-based flow control interconnect device to generate a credit-based flow control interconnect Transaction Layer Packet in which one or more bits of a digest portion carry non-ECRC data. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090007034 | Device, System, and Method for Correction of Integrated Circuit Design - Device, system and method of correcting an integrated circuit design. For example, a method includes receiving a list of one or more root points for an active netlist that requires logic correction, wherein the root points correlate between elements of the active netlist and elements of a re-synthesized netlist that is based on a high-level correction for the integrated circuit design; automatically identifying in the active netlist a driving logic cone for at least one of the root points; and automatically identifying in the re-synthesized netlist a driving logic cone for the respectively correlated root point, including one or more corrected logic elements that correspond to the one or more identified flawed logic elements. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090113082 | Device, System, and Method of Speculative Packet Transmission - Device, system and method of speculative packet transmission. For example, an apparatus for speculative packet transmission includes: a credit-based flow control interconnect device to initiate speculative transmission of a Transaction Layer Packet if a number of available flow control credits is insufficient for completing the transmission. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090177822 | Device, System, and Method of Handling Transactions - Some embodiments include, for example, devices, systems, and methods of handling transactions. In some demonstrative embodiments, an apparatus to handle transactions in a computing system may include a master unit to arbitrate between read and write requests to be issued over a request bus according to at least first and second arbitration schemes. A first ratio between read and write requests issued by the master unit according to the first arbitration scheme may be different from a second ratio between read and write requests issued by the master unit according to the second arbitration scheme. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090185487 | AUTOMATED ADVANCE LINK ACTIVATION - Embodiments herein provide a transaction level mechanism that ensures that the links are operational right in time for the data flow, so that the data flow will not be impacted by delays associated with link recovery into the operational state. The path has links that have the ability to be in an inactive mode or an active mode. The embodiments herein transmit an “activation transmission” over the path to turn on the links within the path, before sending a data transfer (comprising packetized data) to turn on (wake up) the inactive links within the path, so that the actual data transfer does not experience any such start-up or wake-up delays. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090187683 | ADAPTIVE LINK WIDTH CONTROL - A communications apparatus uses at least one logical communications link that comprises a plurality of lanes within a computerized hardware device. A data transfer monitor is connected to the logical communications link and measures the real-time data transfer bandwidth of the logical communications link. In addition, a link management unit or link width control unit (comparator) is connected to the lanes and to the data transfer monitor and continually compares the real-time data transfer bandwidth to a predetermined data transfer bandwidth standard. If the real-time data transfer bandwidth is below the predetermined data transfer bandwidth standard, the link management unit is adapted to perform up-configuring of the logical communications link by activating additional lanes up to a maximum number of lanes making up the logical communications link. Conversely, if the real-time data transfer bandwidth is above the predetermined data transfer bandwidth standard, the link management unit is adapted to perform down-configuring the logical communications link by deactivating lanes within the logical communications link. The lanes consume less power when the lanes are deactivated relative to when the lanes are activated, thus the down-configuring reduces power consumption. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090217075 | Signal Phase Verification for Systems Incorporating Two Synchronous Clock Domains - The present invention implements a mechanism which enables zero-delay verification tools to detect clock domain crossing violation in device under test designs comprising two different clock domains where the fast clock is an integer multiple of the slow clock by inserting undefined (i.e., invalid) values on slow clock domain signals during the clock periods when the signals are not supposed to be captured. The undefined values are contained in the logic cone and emulate timing uncertainly of the path. Propagation of the undefined values through the capturing latch indicates improper clock domains crossing handling. | 08-27-2009 |