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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2014
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert Ohannessian, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Michael Alan Fetterman, Boxborough, MA (US);
Olivier Giroux, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jack H. Choquette, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xiaogang Qiu, San Jose, CA (US);
Shirish Gadre, Fremont, CA (US);
Meenaradchagan Vishnu, San Jose, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for implementing a software-based scoreboarding mechanism. The method includes the steps of receiving a dependency barrier instruction that includes an immediate value and an identifier corresponding to a first register and, based on a comparison of the immediate value to the value stored in the first register, dispatching a subsequent instruction to at least a first processing unit of two or more processing units.