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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:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2005
Applicants:
Makarand M. Dharmapurikar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
John A. Robinson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew J. Tao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Makarand M. Dharmapurikar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
John A. Robinson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew J. Tao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 7/38 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention sets forth an approach to context switching that utilizes scan chains modified to perform context switching operations. The design requires substantially less additional silicon area and design engineering effort than existing context switch approaches, while operating substantially faster and providing additional debug observability during context switching operations.