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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 10, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

James R. Cuffney, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Nicol Hofmann, Boeblingen, DE;

Michael Klein, Boeblingen, DE;

Petra Leber, Boeblingen, DE;

Cédric Lichtenau, Boeblingen, DE;

Silvia M. Mueller, Boeblingen, DE;

Timothy J. Slegel, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/78 (2006.01); G06F 11/36 (2006.01); G06F 7/57 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/7867 (2013.01); G06F 7/57 (2013.01); G06F 11/3644 (2013.01); G06F 11/3648 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for controlling post-silicon configurable instruction behavior are provided. For example, the method includes receiving data related to a compute circuit. The method also includes detecting a data pattern in the data. The method further includes determining that the data pattern is a special case that the compute circuit may handle improperly. The method also includes selecting a value from a post-silicon configurable data set based on the detected data. Further, the method includes changing a behavior of the compute circuit to produce a different output result based on the value selected from the post-silicon configurable data set.


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