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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2023
Filed:
May. 23, 2022
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/80 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/8061 (2013.01);
Abstract
A merge sort circuit can include a parallel merge sort core that performs a partial merge on two input tuples, each containing a number P of data elements sorted according to a sort key, to produce a sorted output tuple of P data elements. Input data blocks to be merged can be stored in first and second block buffers. The block buffers can receive data from a vector memory read interface that reads groups of at least P data elements at a time. Loading of data elements into the block buffers can be based on respective fill levels of the block buffers.