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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gregory P. Rodgers, Austin, TX (US);
Benjamin T. Sander, Austin, TX (US);
Shreyas Ramalingam, Austin, TX (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A programming model for a processor accelerator allows accelerated functions to be called from a main program directly without a management API for the accelerator. A compiler automatically generates wrapper source code for each accelerator function called by the application source code. The wrapper code is compiled, together with the accelerator source code, to generate an object file that is linked to an object file for the main program. By automatically generating the wrapper code, a programmer can simply and directly invoke accelerator functions without the use of a complex management API. In addition, because the wrapper code for the accelerator is generated automatically, a standard compiler can be used to compile the main program, using standard linkage conventions.