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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2018
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Richard T. Witek, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter C. Eastty, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 9/4818 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hardware scheduling circuit may receive priority indications for a plurality of threads for processing, by an execution unit, multiple data samples associated with a signal. A particular thread of the plurality of threads may be scheduled for execution by the execution unit based on a priority of the particular thread and based on an availability of some of the multiple data samples that are to be processed by the particular thread.