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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2018
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Jonathan Curtis Beard, Austin, TX (US);
Curtis Glenn Dunham, Austin, TX (US);
Alejandro Rico Carro, Austin, TX (US);
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for dynamically determining when an operation, specified by one or more instructions in a data processing system, is suitable for accelerated execution. Data indicators are maintained, for data registers of the system, that indicate when data-flow from a register derives from a restricted source. In addition, instruction predicates are provided for instructions to indicate which instructions are capable of accelerated execution. From the data indicators and the instruction predicates, the microarchitecture of the data processing system determines, dynamically, when the operation is a thread-restricted function and suitable for accelerated execution in a hardware accelerator. The thread-restricted function may be executed on a hardware processor, such as a vector, neuromorphic or other processor.