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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2003
Applicants:
Dale John Shidla, Roseville, CA (US);
Andrew Harvey Barr, Roseville, CA (US);
Ken Gary Pomaranski, Roseville, CA (US);
Inventors:
Dale John Shidla, Roseville, CA (US);
Andrew Harvey Barr, Roseville, CA (US);
Ken Gary Pomaranski, Roseville, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/45 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of compiling a program to be executed on a target microprocessor with multiple functional units of a same type. The method includes opportunistically scheduling a redundant operation on one of the functional units that would otherwise be idle during a cycle.