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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2008
Radhika Thekkath, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Radhika Thekkath, Palo Alto, CA (US);
MIPS Technologies, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A processor-based method, system and apparatus to comprise a method, system and apparatus to access a memory location in an on-chip memory based on a virtual processing element identification associated with an instruction. The system comprises multiple virtual processing elements, an access list and a comparator coupled to the memory and the access list. In response to an instruction from a virtual processing element to access a memory location in the memory, the comparator compares a first virtual processing identification associated with the instruction to a second virtual processing identification stored in the access list and grants access to the virtual processing element that generated the instruction to read from or write to the memory location if the first virtual processing element identification is equal to the second virtual processing element identification. The data in the memory is allocated and de-allocated by software.