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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/80 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/8015 (2013.01); G06F 9/30058 (2013.01); G06F 9/3804 (2013.01); G06F 9/3851 (2013.01); G06F 9/3887 (2013.01); G06F 9/3889 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments include a processor capable of supporting multi-mode and corresponding methods. The processor includes front end units, a number of processing elements more than a number of the front end units; and a controller configured to determine if thread divergence occurs due to conditional branching. If there is thread divergence, the processor may set control information to control processing elements using currently activated front end units. If there is not, the processor may set control information to control processing elements using a currently activated front end unit.