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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2021
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sooraj Puthoor, Austin, TX (US);
Muhammad Amber Hassaan, San Marcos, TX (US);
Ashwin Aji, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael L. Chu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nuwan Jayasena, Santa Clara, CA (US);
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus that manages multi-process execution in a processing-in-memory ('PIM') device includes a gatekeeper configured to: receive an identification of one or more registered PIM processes; receive, from a process, a memory request that includes a PIM command; if the requesting process is a registered PIM process and another registered PIM process is active on the PIM device, perform a context switch of PIM state between the registered PIM processes; and issue the PIM command of the requesting process to the PIM device.