Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for hardware-assisted lockstep of processor cores
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Application No.: US16833454Application Date: 2020-03-27
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Publication No.: US11340960B2Publication Date: 2022-05-24
- Inventor: Umberto Santoni , Philip Abraham
- Applicant: Umberto Santoni , Philip Abraham
- Applicant Address: US AZ Scottsdale; US CA Burlingame
- Assignee: Umberto Santoni,Philip Abraham
- Current Assignee: Umberto Santoni,Philip Abraham
- Current Assignee Address: US AZ Scottsdale; US CA Burlingame
- Agency: Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/30
- IPC: G06F9/30 ; G06F9/52 ; G06F9/38 ; G06F11/16

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to circuitry to implement lockstep of processor cores are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor comprises a first processor core comprising a first control flow signature register and a first execution circuit, a second processor core comprising a second control flow signature register and a second execution circuit, and at least one signature circuit to perform a first state history compression operation on a first instruction that executes on the first execution circuit of the first processor core to produce a first result, store the first result in the first control flow signature register, perform a second state history compression operation on a second instruction that executes on the second execution circuit of the second processor core to produce a second result, and store the second result in the second control flow signature register.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210303372A1 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR HARDWARE-ASSISTED LOCKSTEP OF PROCESSOR CORES Public/Granted day:2021-09-30
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