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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2011
Yang NI, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajkishore Barik, Houston, TX (US);
Ali-reza Adl-tabatabai, San Jose, CA (US);
Tatiana Shpeisman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jayanth N. Rao, Folsom, CA (US);
Ben J. Ashbaugh, Folsom, CA (US);
Tomasz Janczak, Gdansk, PL;
Yang Ni, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajkishore Barik, Houston, TX (US);
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, San Jose, CA (US);
Tatiana Shpeisman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jayanth N. Rao, Folsom, CA (US);
Ben J. Ashbaugh, Folsom, CA (US);
Tomasz Janczak, Gdansk, PL;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus to facilitate shared pointers in a heterogeneous platform. In one embodiment of the invention, the heterogeneous or non-homogeneous platform includes, but is not limited to, a central processing core or unit, a graphics processing core or unit, a digital signal processor, an interface module, and any other form of processing cores. The heterogeneous platform has logic to facilitate sharing of pointers to a location of a memory shared by the CPU and the GPU. By sharing pointers in the heterogeneous platform, the data or information sharing between different cores in the heterogeneous platform can be simplified.