Apple inc. (20250094330). Centralized Non-System-Memory Gateway Circuit
Centralized Non-System-Memory Gateway Circuit
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Inventor(s)
Ilya Granovsky of Kirayat Tivon IL
Lital Levy-rubin of Tel Aviv IL
Lior Zimet of Kerem Maharal IL
Centralized Non-System-Memory Gateway Circuit
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250094330 titled 'Centralized Non-System-Memory Gateway Circuit
Original Abstract Submitted
a computer system with a central, non-system memory (nsm) gateway circuit for routing non-dram transactions between agent circuits coupled to a plurality of networks of the computer system, which may include packet-switching capabilities. such non-dram transactions may be routed via a virtual channel in some implementations. to facilitate handling of such transactions, the nsm gateway circuit may include dedicated routing storage (e.g., an input buffer for each source agent circuit on each of the plurality of networks and an output buffer for each destination agent circuit on each of the plurality of networks). the nsm gateway circuit may serve as a termination point for non-dram transactions within the computer system, allowing network credit for a message included in a non-dram transaction to be returned to a source agent circuit prior to delivery to one or more destination agent circuits.
