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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2006
Peter B. Holmqvist, Cary, NC (US);
Robert J. Stoll, Los Altos, CA (US);
John A. Schachte, Cary, NC (US);
Peter B. Holmqvist, Cary, NC (US);
Robert J. Stoll, Los Altos, CA (US);
John A. Schachte, Cary, NC (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A processing pipeline employs one or more bypass caches to allow a transaction that is dependent on the results of a prior transaction to be processed before the prior transaction has completed processing. Each bypass cache is coupled to the input and the output of one of the sections of the processing pipeline so that results of a transaction from that section can be written into or read from the bypass cache as soon as that transaction has been completely processed through that section. With such a configuration, more transactions can be processed by the processing pipeline in a shorter amount of time. This is especially true for very deep pipelines.