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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 25, 2015
Applicant:

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;

Inventors:

Chang Hoon Lee, Montreal, CA;

Louis-Philippe Hamelin, Montreal, CA;

Peter Man-Kin Sinn, Nepean, CA;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3836 (2013.01); G06F 9/3838 (2013.01);
Abstract

The processor chip can have a pre-execution pipeline sharing a plurality of resources including at least one resource of interest, a resource tracker having more than one credit unit associated with each one of said at least one resource of interest. The method can include: decoding the instruction data to determine a resource requirement including a quantity of virtual credits required from the credit units for the at least one resource of interest, checking the resource tracker for an availability of said quantity of virtual credits and, if the availability of the amount of said virtual credits is established, i) dispatching the instruction data, and ii) subtracting the quantity of said credits from the resource tracker.


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