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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2004
Applicant:
Andrew D. Bowen, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
Andrew D. Bowen, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system for graphics instruction fetching. The method includes executing a plurality of threads in a multithreaded execution environment. A respective plurality of instructions are fetched to support the execution of the threads. During runtime, at least one instruction is prefetched for one of the threads to a prefetch buffer. The at least one instruction is accessed from the prefetch buffer if required by the one thread and discarded if not required by the one thread.