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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2004
Charles E. Pilkington, Ottawa, CA;
Charles E. Pilkington, Ottawa, CA;
STMicroelectronics, Inc., Coppell, TX (US);
Abstract
A processing system includes a plurality of processors capable of executing a plurality of threads and supporting at least one of hardware context switching and software context switching. The processing system also includes a hardware concurrency engine coupled to the plurality of processors. The concurrency engine is capable of managing a plurality of concurrency primitives that coordinate execution of the threads by the processors. The concurrency primitives could represent objects, and the processors may be capable of using the objects by reading from and/or writing to addresses in an address space associated with the concurrency engine. Each address may encode an object index identifying one of the objects, an object type identifying a type associated with the identified object, and an operation type identifying a requested operation involving the identified object.