US Patent Issued to NXP on July 7 for "System and method to boot a PCIe endpoint from boot software stored in memory of a PCIe root complex" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,299, issued on July 7, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method to boot a PCIe endpoint from boot software stored in memory of a PCIe root complex" was invented by Tiefei Zang (Austin, Texas) and Gang Liu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Boot of a PCIe EP coupled to a RC by a PCIe bus comprises setting, by the PCIe EP, a program counter of a CPU of the PCIe EP to an address indicative of an address of memory of the RC which stores the boot software to execute. A memory transaction to read, by the PCIe EP via the PCIe bus, a portion of the boot software stored in the address of the memory of th...