Method and apparatus to attain direct communication between accelerator and instruction sequencer

• Main Authors: TALGAM, YOAV, WANG, HONG, SHEAFFER, GAD, YOSEF, YUVAL, HELD, JAMES P, KAUSHIK, SHIV, PATEL, BAIJU, SHEN, JOHN, BIGBEE, BRYANT, JIANG, HONG, HANKINS, RICHARD, HAMMARLUND, PER, RODGERS, DION, CHINYA, GAUTHAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.01.2011
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus wherein a request is communicated directly from a user level application to an accelerator through an accelerator interface and the latter is virtualised so that it is visible to both user level applications and to an operating system.