US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Jan. 13 for "Programmable provision of lanes of a computing system interconnect" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,365, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Programmable provision of lanes of a computing system interconnect" was invented by George D. Azevedo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Peter Malcolm Barnes (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Michael J. Tresidder (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for automatic firmware provision of high speed serializer/deserializer (SERDES) links are disclosed. A system on chip (SoC) includes one or more microcontrollers, a programmable interconnect, a plurality of physical layer engines, and a plurality of SERDES lanes. The programm...