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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
May. 10, 2007
Monier Maher, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jean Pierre Bordes, St. Charles, MO (US);
Christopher Lamb, St. Louis, MO (US);
Sanjay J. Patel, St. Louis, MO (US);
Monier Maher, St. Louis, MO (US);
Jean Pierre Bordes, St. Charles, MO (US);
Christopher Lamb, St. Louis, MO (US);
Sanjay J. Patel, St. Louis, MO (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit comprises an external memory, a plurality of parallel connected Vector Processing Engines (VPEs), and an External Memory Unit (EMU) providing a data transfer path between the VPEs and the external memory. Each VPE contains a plurality of data processing units and a message queuing system adapted to transfer messages between the data processing units and other components of the integrated circuit.