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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2018
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Niranjan Cooray, Folsom, CA (US);

Nicolas Kacevas, Folsom, CA (US);

Altug Koker, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);

Parth Damani, Folsom, CA (US);

Satyanarayana Nekkalapu, Folsom, CA (US);

Assignee:

INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 12/1027 (2016.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 12/1027 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06F 2212/65 (2013.01); G06F 2212/68 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments are generally directed to a scalable memory interface for a graphical processor unit. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a graphical processing unit (GPU) including multiple autonomous engines; a common memory interface for the autonomous engines; and a memory management unit for the common memory interface, the memory management unit including multiple engine modules, wherein each of the engine modules includes a translation-lookaside buffer (TLB) that is dedicated to providing address translation for memory requests for a respective autonomous engine of the plurality of autonomous engines, and a TLB miss tracking mechanism that provides tracking for the respective autonomous engine.


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