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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2010
Applicant:
Andrew Webber, Hertfordshire, GB;
Inventor:
Andrew Webber, Hertfordshire, GB;
Assignee:
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3885 (2013.01); G06F 9/38 (2013.01); G06F 9/3851 (2013.01); G06F 9/5011 (2013.01); G06F 2209/507 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for executing instructions of a multi-threaded processor having multiple hardware threads () with differing hardware resources comprising the steps of receiving a plurality of streams of instructions () and determining which hardware threads are able to receive instructions for execution (), determining whether a thread determined to be available for executing an instructions has the hardware resources available required by that instructions () and executing the instruction in dependence on the result of the determination ().