BANKING GRAPHICS PROCESSOR SHARED LOCAL MEMORY

• Main Authors: APPU, Abhishek, R, VALERIO, James, A, RAY, Joydeep
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 01.02.2018
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

A graphics processor may be assigned a number of banks in a shared local memory to reduce the number of bank conflicts. In some cases, the number of banks may be higher than the single instruction multiple data slot number times the number of messages per cycle. The actual number of banks may be set...