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Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2000
Applicants:

Gilbert Wolrich, Framingham, MA (US);

Matthew J. Adiletta, Worcester, MA (US);

William R. Wheeler, Southborough, MA (US);

Debra Bernstein, Sudbury, MA (US);

Donald F. Hooper, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

Inventors:

Gilbert Wolrich, Framingham, MA (US);

Matthew J. Adiletta, Worcester, MA (US);

William R. Wheeler, Southborough, MA (US);

Debra Bernstein, Sudbury, MA (US);

Donald F. Hooper, Shrewsbury, MA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A parallel hardware-based multithreaded processor is described. The processor includes a general purpose processor that coordinates system functions and a plurality of microengines that support multiple hardware threads or contexts (THREAD. . . THREAD). The processor maintains execution threads (THREAD. . . THREAD) access a register set organized into a plurality of relatively addressable windows of registers that are relatively addressable per thread (THREAD. . . THREAD).


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