PROCESSOR EVENT MANAGER

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PROCESSOR EVENT MANAGER - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240281394 titled 'PROCESSOR EVENT MANAGER

Simplified Explanation: The patent application describes an event manager for facilitating event notification and acknowledgment between circuits in a computing device. The event manager includes various types of channels that enable reliable communication between circuits.

The event manager has static channels, direct memory access (DMA) channels, and dynamically configured channels.
Each channel has conductors that allow a publishing circuit to notify a subscribing circuit of an event using request signals and acknowledge signals.
The circuits can engage in a 4-way handshake using these signals to ensure reliable communication across clock domains.

Key Features and Innovation:

Event manager for handling event notification and acknowledgment between circuits.
Static channels, DMA channels, and dynamically configured channels for communication.
Conductors for request and acknowledge signals to ensure reliable communication.
4-way handshake mechanism to prevent event loss and enable communication across clock domains.

Potential Applications: The technology can be applied in various computing devices where reliable event notification and acknowledgment between circuits are crucial, such as in data centers, networking equipment, and embedded systems.

Problems Solved: The technology addresses the challenge of ensuring reliable communication between circuits in a computing device, especially when events need to be transmitted across different clock domains without loss.

Benefits:

Reliable event notification and acknowledgment between circuits.
Prevention of event loss during communication.
Facilitates communication across different clock domains.
Enhances overall system reliability and performance.

Commercial Applications: The technology can be utilized in data centers, networking equipment, embedded systems, and other computing devices to improve communication reliability and system performance.

Prior Art: Readers can explore prior research on event managers, communication protocols between circuits, and techniques for ensuring reliable communication in computing devices.

Frequently Updated Research: Researchers may be conducting studies on optimizing event managers for faster communication, enhancing the 4-way handshake mechanism, and improving the overall efficiency of event notification systems.

Questions about Event Managers: 1. How does the event manager ensure reliable communication between circuits in a computing device? 2. What are the potential challenges in implementing event managers in complex systems?

Original Abstract Submitted

various embodiments disclosed herein relate to an event manager for handling event notification and acknowledgement between circuits in a computing device. the event manager may be configured with static channels, direct memory access (dma) channels, and dynamically configured channels. each of the channels has conductors that allow a publishing circuit to assert a request signal on a conductor to notify the subscribing circuit of an event and the subscribing circuit to assert an acknowledge signal on a second conductor to notify the publishing circuit of receipt of the request signal. using the request and acknowledge signals, the publishing circuit and subscribing circuit can engage in a 4-way handshake that ensures no events are lost and the events can be communicated reliably across clock domains.