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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2010
Jerome Francis Duluk, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jesse David Hall, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Patrick R. Brown, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Gregory Scott Palmer, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Eric S. Werness, San Jose, CA (US);
Jerome Francis Duluk, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jesse David Hall, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Patrick R. Brown, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Gregory Scott Palmer, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Eric S. Werness, San Jose, CA (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method macro expander (MME) coupled to a driver and the processing pipeline of a graphics processing unit. In operation, the MME receives, from the driver, a first packet of work indicating a macro stored in an instruction memory that is to be executed. The MME then executes the commands of the macro in the instruction memory to generate a second packet of work, and the second packet of work is then transmitted to the processing pipeline for further execution.