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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2015
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, TW;
Heng-Yi Chen, Chiayi County, TW;
Chung-Ho Chen, Tainan, TW;
Chen-Chieh Wang, Yilan County, TW;
Juin-Ming Lu, Hsinchu, TW;
Chun-Hung Lai, Taichung, TW;
Hsun-Lun Huang, Taichung, TW;
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A scheduling method is provided. The method includes: recording a next instruction and a ready state of each thread group in a scoreboard; determining whether there is any ready thread group whose ready state is affirmative; determining whether a load/store unit is available, wherein the load/store unit is configured to access a data memory unit; when the load/store unit is available, determining whether the ready thread groups include a data access thread group, wherein the next instruction of the data access thread group is related to accessing the data memory unit; selecting a target thread group from the data access thread groups; and dispatching the target thread group to the load/store unit for execution.