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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Aaron L. Smith, Seattle, WA (US);
Jan S. Gray, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for implementing incremental schedulers for out-of-order block-based processors, including field programmable gate array implementations. In one example of the disclosed technology, a processor includes an instruction scheduler formed by configuring one or more look up table RAMs to store ready state data for a plurality of instructions in an instruction block. The instruction scheduler further includes a plurality of queues that store ready state data for the processor and sends dependency information to ready determination logic on a first in/first out basis. The instruction scheduler selects one or more of the ready instructions to be issued and executed by the block-based processor.