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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew M. Havlir, Austin, TX (US);
James S. Blomgren, Austin, TX (US);
Terence M. Potter, Austin, TX (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed relating to a multithreaded execution pipeline. In some embodiments, an apparatus is configured to assign a number of threads to an execution pipeline that is an integer multiple of a minimum number of cycles that an execution unit is configured to use to generate an execution result from a given set of input operands. In one embodiment, the apparatus is configured to require strict ordering of the threads. In one embodiment, the apparatus is configured so that the same thread access (e.g., reads and writes) a register file in a given cycle. In one embodiment, the apparatus is configured so that the same thread does not write back an operand and a result to an operand cache in a given cycle.