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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2011
Jack Hilaire Choquette, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Fetterman, Boxborough, MA (US);
Shirish Gadre, Fremont, CA (US);
Xiaogang Qiu, San Jose, CA (US);
Omkar Paranjape, Austin, TX (US);
Anjana Rajendran, San Jose, CA (US);
Stewart Glenn Carlton, Madison, AL (US);
Eric Lyell Hill, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rajeshwaran Selvanesan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Douglas J. Hahn, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jack Hilaire Choquette, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Fetterman, Boxborough, MA (US);
Shirish Gadre, Fremont, CA (US);
Xiaogang Qiu, San Jose, CA (US);
Omkar Paranjape, Austin, TX (US);
Anjana Rajendran, San Jose, CA (US);
Stewart Glenn Carlton, Madison, AL (US);
Eric Lyell Hill, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rajeshwaran Selvanesan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Douglas J. Hahn, Los Altos, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing a shaped access of a register file that includes a set of N registers, wherein N is greater than or equal to two. The technique involves, for at least one thread included in a group of threads, receiving a request to access a first amount of data from each register in the set of N registers, and configuring a crossbar to allow the at least one thread to access the first amount of data from each register in the set of N registers.