Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Intermediate host integrated circuit between virtual machine instance and customer programmable logic
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Application No.: US15279164Application Date: 2016-09-28
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Publication No.: US11099894B2Publication Date: 2021-08-24
- Inventor: Mark Bradley Davis , Asif Khan , Christopher Joseph Pettey , Erez Izenberg , Nafea Bshara
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F9/46 ; G06F9/50 ; G06F13/40 ; G06F9/54

Abstract:
A multi-tenant environment is described with configurable hardware logic (e.g., a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)) positioned on a host server computer. For communicating with the configurable hardware logic, an intermediate host integrated circuit (IC) is positioned between the configurable hardware logic and virtual machines executing on the host server computer. The host IC can include management functionality and mapping functionality to map requests between the configurable hardware logic and the virtual machines. Shared peripherals can be located either on the host IC or the configurable hardware logic. The host IC can apportion resources amongst the different configurable hardware logics to ensure that no one customer can over consume resources.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180088992A1 INTERMEDIATE HOST INTEGRATED CIRCUIT BETWEEN VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTANCE AND CUSTOMER PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC Public/Granted day:2018-03-29
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