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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Douglas Clancy, Cary, NC (US);
Melinda Joyce Brown, Raleigh, NC (US);
Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Raleigh, NC (US);
Brian Michael Stempel, Raleigh, NC (US);
Michael Scott Mcilvaine, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas Philip Speier, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Rodney Wayne Smith, Raleigh, NC (US);
Gagan Gupta, Bellvue, WA (US);
David Tennyson Harper, III, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Operand-based reach explicit dataflow processors, and related methods and computer-readable media are disclosed. The operand-based reach explicit dataflow processors support execution of a producer instruction that explicitly names a target consumer operand of a consumer instruction in a consumer operand encoding namespace of the producer instruction. The produced value from execution of the producer instruction is provided or otherwise made available as an input to the named target consumer operand of the consumer instruction as a result of processing the producer instruction. The target consumer operand is encoded in the producer instruction as an operand target distance relative to the producer instruction. Instructions in an instruction stream between the producer instruction and the targeted consumer instruction that have no operands do not consume an operand reach namespace in the producer instructions. This provides for a deeper explicit consumer naming reach for a given bit size of the operand reach namespace.