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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
May. 02, 2014
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Andrew Evan Gruber, Arlington, MA (US);
Lin Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Yun Du, San Diego, CA (US);
Alexei Vladimirovich Bourd, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3009 (2013.01); G06F 9/30145 (2013.01); G06F 9/3851 (2013.01); G06F 9/3887 (2013.01);
Abstract
A SIMD processor may be configured to determine one or more active threads from a plurality of threads, select one active thread from the one or more active threads, and perform a divergent operation on the selected active thread. The divergent operation may be a serial operation.