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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010

Filed:

Dec. 19, 2005
Applicants:

Dominic Acocella, Blainville, CA;

Mark R. Goudy, Berkeley, CA (US);

Inventors:

Dominic Acocella, Blainville, CA;

Mark R. Goudy, Berkeley, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/167 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for performing multiple concurrent accesses in a shared memory resource comprising storing a first group of data elements in data entries across multiple banks in the shared memory resource, a first data element of the first group being stored in a data entry in a first bank; skipping at least one data entry in at least one bank after storing a last data element of the first group, to introduce an offset; following the offset, storing a second group of data elements in data entries across multiple banks in the shared memory resource, a first data element of the second group being stored in a data entry in a second bank different from the first bank; and concurrently accessing the first data element of the first group from the first bank and the first data element of the second group from the second bank.


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