Incorporating a spatial array into one or more programmable processor cores

• Main Authors: Smith Aaron, Burger Douglas C, Duric Milovan
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.10.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Functional units disposed in one or more processor cores are communicatively coupled using both a shared bypass network and a switched network. The shared bypass network enables the functional units to be operated conventionally for general processing while the switched network enables specialized p...