Chiplet Arrangement with Control-Plane Resource Orchestration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing chiplet solutions lack flexibility and efficiency in design and manufacturing, leading to economic limitations and inflexibility in adapting to future changes or evolving hardware needs.
Innovation Solution
A configurable chiplet arrangement with a chiplet control plane that orchestrates microsystems and microservices, allowing dynamic instantiation and management of hardware resources through a resource orchestrator, network manager, and resource scheduler, enabling optimized resource utilization and centralized control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If chiplets are used to provide hardware flexibility and configurability, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but device complexity increases due to the need for orchestration and management systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a control plane as an intermediary layer between the physical chiplet infrastructure and the microservice workloads. This control plane includes a resource orchestrator that manages chiplet provisioning, a network manager that handles communication, and a resource scheduler that allocates resources. This mediator abstracts the complexity of chiplet management, allowing flexible hardware configuration without directly exposing system complexity to users.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the chiplet system into distinct functional components: compute chiplets, memory chiplets, I/O chiplets, and a control plane. This segmentation allows each component to be independently managed and configured, improving adaptability while organizing complexity into manageable segments rather than a monolithic system.
2Ease of operation
If dynamic configuration and orchestration are implemented, then adaptability and ease of operation are improved, but manufacturing precision and initial system setup complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic configuration capabilities where the control plane can provision, deprovision, and reconfigure chiplet resources at runtime based on workload requirements. The resource orchestrator dynamically allocates chiplets to microservices, and the resource scheduler adjusts resource allocation in real-time. This dynamic approach simplifies operation by allowing flexible reconfiguration without requiring precise pre-manufacturing planning for each specific use case.
3Productivity
If resource orchestration and management systems are added, then productivity and efficiency are improved through optimized resource utilization, but device complexity and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The control plane implements self-service mechanisms where the resource orchestrator automatically provisions and configures chiplet resources based on workload demands without requiring manual intervention. The resource scheduler autonomously allocates and deallocates resources, and the network manager automatically manages communication protocols. This automation improves productivity by optimizing resource utilization while reducing the operational overhead that would otherwise require additional power-consuming management infrastructure.
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AI summary
A chiplet arrangement (100) is presented. The chiplet arrangement (100) is controllable by an external communications interface (150). The chiplet arrangement (100) comprises at least one chiplet (110a, 110b, 110c) connected to a chiplet network (120), wherein the at least one chiplet (110a, 110b, 110c) comprises at least one hardware resource (112a, ..., 112e). The chiplet arrangement (100) is provided with a chiplet control plane (300) configured to orchestrate one or more microsystems (210, 220, 230). Each microsystem (210, 220, 230) comprising at least one hardware resource (112a, ..., 112e) and an addressable connection at the chiplet network (120). The control plane (300) is further configured to expose one or more microsystems (210, 220, 230) as microservices (410, ..., 440) at the external communications interface (150).