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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2009
John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);
Brett W. Coon, San Jose, CA (US);
Ian A. Buck, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Steven Glanville, Cupertino, CA (US);
John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);
Brett W. Coon, San Jose, CA (US);
Ian A. Buck, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Steven Glanville, Cupertino, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for unifying the addressing of multiple distinct parallel memory spaces into a single address space for a thread. A unified memory space address is converted into an address that accesses one of the parallel memory spaces for that thread. A single type of load or store instruction may be used that specifies the unified memory space address for a thread instead of using a different type of load or store instruction to access each of the distinct parallel memory spaces.