SILICON USAGE METERING TO PROVIDE SILICON-AS-A-SERVICE

WIPO Patent Application WO/2022/133778

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Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement software defined silicon feature configuration pay-as-you-go licensing are disclosed. A disclosed silicon semiconductor device includes a first counter that increments a first count when a timer expires and, responsive to expiration of the timer, a feature configuration sampler to sample a state of a configuration of a feature of the silicon semiconductor device. In addition, the silicon semiconductor device includes a second counter that increments a second count when the sampled state of the configuration of the feature indicates the feature is active. A feature up-time tracker is also included outputs a value representative of an amount of time the configuration has been active, where the amount of time is based on the first count and the second count.

SRINIVASAN VASUDEVAN (US)
GRIMSRUD KNUT (US)
VAN DE GROENENDAAL JOHAN (US)
ORIOL MARIUSZ (PL)
AHUJA NISHI (US)
ZHOU SHEN (CN)
ALT SAMANTHA (US)
BARTFAI-WALCOTT KATALIN (US)
BERENT ARKADIUSZ (PL)

PCT/CN2020/138531

June 30, 2022

December 23, 2020

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INTEL CORP (US)
SRINIVASAN VASUDEVAN (US)
GRIMSRUD KNUT (US)
VAN DE GROENENDAAL JOHAN (US)
ORIOL MARIUSZ (PL)
AHUJA NISHI (US)
ZHOU SHEN (CN)
ALT SAMANTHA (US)
BARTFAI WALCOTT KATALIN (US)
BERENT ARKADIUSZ (PL)

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