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Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022

Filed:

May. 17, 2021
Applicant:

Graphcore Limited, Bristol, GB;

Inventors:

James Pallister, Bristol, GB;

Jamie Hanlon, Bristol, GB;

Assignee:

GRAPHCORE LIMITED, Bristol, GB;

Attorney:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3861 (2013.01); G06F 9/3826 (2013.01); G06F 9/3828 (2013.01); G06F 9/3834 (2013.01); G06F 9/3857 (2013.01); G06F 9/3867 (2013.01);
Abstract

A processor includes: a memory; an execution pipeline having a plurality of pipeline stages for executing an operation on data provided to the execution pipeline and storing a result of the operation into the memory; a receive pipeline having a plurality of pipeline stages for handling incoming data to the processor and storing the incoming data into memory; context status storage for holding an exception indicator of an exception encountered by the receive pipeline whilst it is handling incoming data; the receive pipeline being configured to determine that an exception has been encountered in one of its pipeline stages and to delay committing the exception indicator to the context status storage until a final one of its pipeline stages and to continue to receive and store incoming data into the memory until the exception indicator has been committed.


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