US Patent Issued to Intel on June 17 for "Hardware logging for lane margining and characterization" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,752, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hardware logging for lane margining and characterization" was invented by Debendra Das Sharma (Saratoga, Calif.), Michelle C. Jen (Mountain View, Calif.), Swadesh Choudhary (Mountain View, Calif.) and Raghucharan Boddupalli (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a port with a replay buffer and protocol logic to receive a flit in a sequence of flits to be sent on a point-to-point link and determine an error in the flit. Based on the error, a copy of the flit is stored in a first position within the replay buffer as well as a copy of...