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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nathan Tuck, Corvallis, OR (US);
Alexander Klaiber, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ross Segelken, Portland, OR (US);
David Dunn, Sammamish, WA (US);
Ben Hertzberg, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rupert Brauch, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas Kistler, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Guillermo J. Rozas, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Madhu Swarna, Portland, OR (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure provides a micro-processing system operable in a hardware decoder mode and in a translation mode. In the hardware decoder mode, the hardware decoder receives and decodes non-native ISA instructions into native instructions for execution in a processing pipeline. In the translation mode, native translations of non-native ISA instructions are executed in the processing pipeline without using the hardware decoder. The system includes a code portion profile stored in hardware that changes dynamically in response to use of the hardware decoder to execute portions of non-native ISA code. The code portion profile is then used to dynamically form new native translations executable in the translation mode.