HARDWARE ENFORCED CONTENT PROTECTION FOR GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS

Patent №

US 9,767,320

Granted

2017-09-19

Filed 2015

Owner

QUALCOMM INCORPORATED

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14821092

This disclosure proposes techniques for graphics processing. In one example, a graphics processing unit (GPU) is configured to access a memory according to one of an unsecure mode and a secure mode. The GPU may include a memory access controller configured to direct memory transactions from at least one hardware unit of the GPU to a secure context bank in a memory controller when the GPU is operating in a secure mode, and configured to direct memory transactions from the at least one hardware unit of the GPU to an unsecure context bank in the memory controller when the GPU is operating in the unsecure mode.

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AI classification

AI hardware0.69
Knowledge representation0.12
Vision0.07
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

QUALCOMM INCORPORATED

assignment · 365790381

Assignors

SHARP, COLIN CHRISTOPHER, VISWANATHAN, RAMESH

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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