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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2017
Applicant:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 13/1642 (2013.01); G06F 13/1652 (2013.01); G06F 13/1678 (2013.01); G06F 13/4018 (2013.01);
Abstract
A queue manager apparatus converts inbound commands of a first width into scalar format commands to be queued in a command queue. Furthermore, the queue manager converts the scalar format commands residing in the command queue into outbound commands of a second width for transmission. Converting inbound commands to scalar format commands and then converting the scalar format commands to a target width for transmission allows the queue manager to advantageously provide efficient and programmable command transmission between arbitrary processing units, regardless of potentially mismatched native command widths.