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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1999
Dion Rodgers, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Darrell Boggs, Aloha, OR (US);
Amit Merchant, Portland, OR (US);
Rajesh Kota, Aloha, OR (US);
Rachel Hsu, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Dion Rodgers, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Darrell Boggs, Aloha, OR (US);
Amit Merchant, Portland, OR (US);
Rajesh Kota, Aloha, OR (US);
Rachel Hsu, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes maintaining a state machine to provide a multi-bit output, each bit of the multi-bit output indicating a respective status for an associated thread of multiple threads being executed within a multithreaded processor. Status for a first thread is detected, responsive to which a functional unit within the multithreaded processor is configured in accordance with the multi-bit output of the state machine.