LOW LATENCY VARIABLE TRANSFER NETWORK FOR FINE GRAINED PARALLELISM OF VIRTUAL THREADS ACROSS MULTIPLE HARDWARE THREADS

• Main Authors: SHEARER, ROBERT, HOOVER, RUSSELL, DEAN, WATSON, ALFRED, COMPARAN, MIGUEL
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 27.06.2013
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

A method and circuit arrangement utilize a low latency variable transfer network between the register files of multiple processing cores in a multi-core processor chip to support fine grained parallelism of virtual threads across multiple hardware threads. The communication of a variable over the va...