ENABLING PRODUCT SKUS BASED ON CHIPLET CONFIGURATIONS

• Main Authors: TESHOME, Melaku, XAVIER, Binoj, FINLEY, Eric, GEORGE, Varghese, JAHAGIRDAR, Sanjeev, MASTRONARDE, Josh, KOKER, Altug, CHENEY, Lance, VEMULAPALLI, Vikranth, STRIRAMASSARMA, Lakshminarayanan, MATAM, Naveen, RAJWANI, Iqbal
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.01.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

A disaggregated processor package can be configured to accept interchangeable chiplets. Interchangeability is enabled by specifying a standard physical interconnect for chiplets that can enable the chiplet to interface with a fabric or bridge interconnect. Chiplets from different IP designers can conform to the common interconnect, enabling such chiplets to be interchangeable during assembly. The fabric and bridge interconnects logic on the chiplet can then be configured to confirm with the actual interconnect layout of the on-board logic of the chiplet. Additionally, data from chiplets can be transmitted across an inter-chiplet fabric using encapsulation, such that the actual data being transferred is opaque to the fabric, further enable interchangeability of the individual chiplets. With such an interchangeable design, higher or lower density memory can be inserted into memory chiplet slots, while compute or graphics chiplets with a higher or lower core count can be inserted into logic chiplet slots.