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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2018
Applicant:
Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Siva Hari, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael Sullivan, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy Tsai, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stephen W. Keckler, Austin, TX (US);
Abdulrahman Mahmoud, Savoy, IL (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corp., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30029 (2013.01); G06F 9/30032 (2013.01); G06F 9/30101 (2013.01); G06F 11/1044 (2013.01);
Abstract
Software-only and software-hardware optimizations to reduce the overhead of intra-thread instruction duplication on a GPU or other instruction processor are disclosed. The optimizations trade off error containment for performance and include ISA extensions with limited hardware changes and area costs.