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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2008
Brett W. Coon, San Jose, CA (US);
John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);
Lars Nyland, Carrboro, NC (US);
Peter C. Mills, San Jose, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Brett W. Coon, San Jose, CA (US);
John R. Nickolls, Los Altos, CA (US);
Lars Nyland, Carrboro, NC (US);
Peter C. Mills, San Jose, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An indirect branch instruction takes an address register as an argument in order to provide indirect function call capability for single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) processor architectures. The indirect branch instruction is used to implement indirect function calls, virtual function calls, and switch statements to improve processing performance compared with using sequential chains of tests and branches.