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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2010
David I. J. Glen, Toronto, CA;
Philip J. Rogers, Pepperell, MA (US);
Gordon F. Caruk, Brampton, CA;
Gongxian Jeffrey Cheng, Toronto, CA;
Mark Hummel, Franklin, MA (US);
Stephen Patrick Thompson, Longmont, CO (US);
Anthony Asaro, Toronto, CA;
David I. J. Glen, Toronto, CA;
Philip J. Rogers, Pepperell, MA (US);
Gordon F. Caruk, Brampton, CA;
Gongxian Jeffrey Cheng, Toronto, CA;
Mark Hummel, Franklin, MA (US);
Stephen Patrick Thompson, Longmont, CO (US);
Anthony Asaro, Toronto, CA;
ATI Technologies ULC, Ontario, CA;
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for enabling efficient reads to a local memory of a processing unit. In an embodiment, a processing unit includes an interface and a buffer. The interface is configured to (i) send a request for a portion of data in a region of a local memory of an other processing unit and (ii) receive, responsive to the request, all the data from the region. The buffer is configured to store the data from the region of the local memory of the other processing unit.