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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2010
Ekaterina M. Ambroladze, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Deanna Postles Dunn Berger, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Michael Fee, Cold Spring, NY (US);
Christine C. Jones, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Arthur J. O'neill, Jr., Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Diana Lynn Orf, Somerville, MA (US);
Robert J. Sonnelitter, Iii, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Ekaterina M. Ambroladze, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Deanna Postles Dunn Berger, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Michael Fee, Cold Spring, NY (US);
Christine C. Jones, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Arthur J. O'Neill, Jr., Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Diana Lynn Orf, Somerville, MA (US);
Robert J. Sonnelitter, III, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A pipelined processing device includes: a device controller configured to receive a request to perform an operation; a plurality of subcontrollers configured to receive at least one instruction associated with the operation, each of the plurality of subcontrollers including a counter configured to generate an active time value indicating at least a portion of a time taken to process the at least one instruction; a pipeline processor configured to receive and process the at least one instruction, the pipeline processor configured to receive the active time value; and a shared pipeline storage area configured to store the active time value for each of the plurality of subcontrollers.