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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2010
Applicant:
Zahid Hussain, Berkshire, GB;
Inventor:
Zahid Hussain, Berkshire, GB;
Assignee:
Via Technologies, Inc., Hsin-Tien, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and systems for performing control of flow in a graphics processor architecture are provided. For example, in at least one embodiment, a computing system includes a memory storing a plurality of instructions and a graphics processing unit. The graphics processing unit is configured to process the instructions according to a multi-stage scalar pipeline and store condition code values in the branch control stack. The graphics processing unit is further configured to process branch instructions using condition code values stored in the condition register at the top of the branch control stack.