Nicholas B Adams

US Patent:

20190286450, Sep 19, 2019

Filed:

Jun 4, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/431444

Inventors:

- Santa Clara CA, US
VINCENT ZIMMER - federal way WA, US
NICHOLAS ADAMS - Beaverton OR, US
WILLARD WISEMAN - Tigard OR, US
GIRI MUDUSURU - Portland OR, US
NUO ZHANG - Santa Clara CA, US

Assignee:

Intel Corporation - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

G06F 9/4401
G06F 21/57
G06F 9/445

Abstract:

The present disclosure is directed to controlled customization of silicon initialization. A device may comprise, for example, a boot module including a memory on which boot code is stored, the boot code including at least an initial boot block (IBB) module that is not customizable and a global platform database (GPD) module including customizable data. The IBB module may include a pointer indicating GPD module location. The customizable data may comprise configurable parameters and simple configuration language (SCL) to cause the device to execute at least one logical operation during execution of the boot code. The GPD module may further comprise a pointer indicating SCL location. The boot code may be executed upon activation of the device, which may cause the IBB module to load an interpreter for executing the SCL. The interpreter may also verify access request operations in the SCL are valid before executing the access request operations.

US Patent:

20170003976, Jan 5, 2017

Filed:

Dec 27, 2013

Appl. No.:

15/100267

Inventors:

- Santa Clara CA, US
VINCENT ZIMMER - federal way WA, US
NICHOLAS ADAMS - Beaverton OR, US
WILLARD WISEMAN - Tigard OR, US
GIRI MUDUSURU - Portland OR, US
NUO ZHANG - Santa Clara CA, US

Assignee:

INTEL CORPORATION - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

G06F 9/44

Abstract:

The present disclosure is directed to controlled customization of silicon initialization. A device may comprise, for example, a boot module including a memory on which boot code is stored, the boot code including at least an initial boot block (IBB) module that is not customizable and a global platform database (GPD) module including customizable data. The IBB module may include a pointer indicating GPD module location. The customizable data may comprise configurable parameters and simple configuration language (SCL) to cause the device to execute at least one logical operation during execution of the boot code. The GPD module may further comprise a pointer indicating SCL location. The boot code may be executed upon activation of the device, which may cause the IBB module to load an interpreter for executing the SCL. The interpreter may also verify access request operations in the SCL are valid before executing the access request operations.

US Patent:

20160292423, Oct 6, 2016

Filed:

Jun 25, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/778000

Inventors:

- Santa Clara CA, US
Vincent J. Zimmer - Federal Way WA, US
Brian S. Payne - Portland OR, US
Nicholas J. Adams - Beaverton OR, US

International Classification:

G06F 21/57
G06F 21/53

Abstract:

Embodiments related to hardware configuration reporting and arbitration are disclosed herein. For example, an apparatus for hardware configuration reporting may include: a processing device having a trusted execution environment (TEE) and a non-trusted execution environment (non-TEE); request service logic, stored in the memory, to operate within the TEE to receive an indication of a request from arbiter logic, wherein the request represents a hardware configuration register; and reporting logic, stored in the memory, to operate within the TEE and to report an indicator of a value of the hardware configuration register represented by the request to the arbiter logic. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.

US Patent:

20150379306, Dec 31, 2015

Filed:

Jun 27, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/317909

Inventors:

Vincent J. Zimmer - Federal Way WA, US
Nicholas J. Adams - Beaverton OR, US
Giri P. Mudusuru - Portland OR, US
Lee G. Rosenbaum - Hillsboro OR, US
Michael A. Rothman - Puyallup WA, US

International Classification:

G06F 21/72
H04L 9/32
G06F 21/57
H04L 9/08

Abstract:

An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: an out-of-band cryptoprocessor coupled to secure non-volatile storage; and at least one storage medium having firmware instructions stored thereon for causing, during runtime and after an operating system for the apparatus has booted, the cryptoprocessor to (a) store a key within the secure non-volatile storage, (b) sign an object with the key, while the key is within the cryptoprocessor, to produce a signature, and (c) verify the signature. Other embodiments are described herein.

US Patent:

20150095633, Apr 2, 2015

Filed:

Oct 2, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/127211

Inventors:

Jiewen Yao - Shanghai, CN
Vincent J. Zimmer - Federal Way WA, US
Nicholas J. Adams - Beaverton OR, US
Willard M. Wiseman - Tigard OR, US
Qin Long - Shanghai, CN
Shihui Li - Shanghai, CN

International Classification:

G06F 21/57
G06F 21/72

US Classification:

713 2, 713189

Abstract:

An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: an out-of-band cryptoprocessor including secure non-volatile storage that couples to a root index, having a fixed address, and comprises first and second variables referenced by the root index; and semiconductor integrated code (SIC) including embedded processor logic to initialize a processor and embedded memory logic to initialize a memory coupled to the processor; wherein (a) the SIC is to be executed responsive to resetting the processor and prior to providing control to boot code, and (b) the SIC is to perform pre-boot operations in response to accessing at least one of the first and second variables. Other embodiments are described herein.