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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 10, 2013
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Philip Payman Shirvani, San Jose, CA (US);

Peter Benjamin Sommers, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Eric T. Anderson, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/04 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3871 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product for generating flow-control signals for a processing pipeline is disclosed. The method includes the steps of generating, by a first pipeline stage, a delayed ready signal based on a downstream ready signal received from a second pipeline stage and a throttle disable signal. A downstream valid signal is generated by the first pipeline stage based on an upstream valid signal and the delayed ready signal. An upstream ready signal is generated by the first pipeline stage based on the delayed ready signal and the downstream valid signal.


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