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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:
Mar. 07, 2023

Filed:

May. 18, 2020
Applicant:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Arun A. Nair, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Ashok T. Venkatachar, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Emil Talpes, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Srikanth Arekapudi, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Rajesh Kumar Arunachalam, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30116 (2013.01); G06F 9/30029 (2013.01); G06F 9/30047 (2013.01); G06F 9/30101 (2013.01); G06F 9/384 (2013.01); G06F 9/3857 (2013.01);
Abstract

A processor in a data processing system includes a master-shadow physical register file and a renaming unit. The master-shadow physical register file has a master storage coupled to shadow storage. The renaming unit is coupled to the master-shadow physical register file. Based on an occurrence of shadow transfer activation conditions verified by the renaming unit, data in the master storage is transferred from the master storage to the shadow storage for storage. Data is transferred from the shadow storage back to the master storage based on the occurrence of a shadow-to-master transfer event, which includes, for example, a flush of the master storage by the processor.


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