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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2014
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Olivier Giroux, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael Alan Fetterman, Boxborough, MA (US);
Robert Ohannessian, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Shirish Gadre, Fremont, CA (US);
Jack H. Choquette, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xiaogang Qiu, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Scott Tuckey, Saratoga, CA (US);
Robert James Stoll, Los Altos, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and apparatus are provided that include an implementation for decoupled pipelines. The apparatus includes a scheduler configured to issue instructions to one or more functional units and a functional unit coupled to a queue having a number of slots for storing instructions. The instructions issued to the functional unit are stored in the queue until the functional unit is available to process the instructions.