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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2004
Applicant:
Charles E. Pilkington, Ottawa, CA;
Inventor:
Charles E. Pilkington, Ottawa, CA;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics, Inc., Carrollton, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A processing system includes a plurality of processors capable of executing a plurality of threads and supporting at least one of hardware context switching and software context switching. The processing system also includes at least one hardware scheduler capable of scheduling execution of the plurality of threads by the plurality of processors. The at least one hardware scheduler is capable of scheduling execution of the threads by performing instruction-by-instruction scheduling of the threads.