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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
May. 12, 2016
Applicant:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Inventors:
Nam Sung Kim, Champaign, IL (US);
Zhenhong Liu, Champaign, IL (US);
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/78 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 1/3234 (2019.01); G06F 1/3287 (2019.01); G06F 1/3203 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/7839 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01); G06F 1/3243 (2013.01); G06F 1/3275 (2013.01); G06F 1/3287 (2013.01); G06F 9/30021 (2013.01); G06F 9/30058 (2013.01); G06F 9/30141 (2013.01); G06F 9/3836 (2013.01); G06F 9/3887 (2013.01);
Abstract
A GPU architecture employs a crossbar switch to preferentially store operand vectors in a compressed form allowing reduction in the number of memory circuits that must be activated during an operand fetch and to allow existing execution units to be used for scalar execution. Scalar execution can be performed during branch divergence.