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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Yi Luo, Issaquah, WA (US);
Jinwen XI, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xuan Zuo, Redmond, WA (US);
Haishan Zhu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric Sen Chung, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A hardware retire circuit includes: one or more input queues, each queue corresponding to an input stream of tasks and being configured to store input task identifiers corresponding to tasks of the input stream; and processing logic configured to: receive a completed task event; determine whether a completed task queue identifier and a completed task identifier of the completed task event match an input task identifier of an input task at a head of an input queue having an input queue identifier corresponding to the completed task queue identifier; and in response to determining a match, pop the task at the head of the input queue and output a task retirement event corresponding to the input task.