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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2015
Vivante Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mankit Lo, Fremont, CA (US);
Vivante Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system includes a hardware synchronization component (HSC). Multiple concurrent threads of execution issue instructions to update the state of the HSC. Multiple threads may update the state in the same clock cycle and a thread does not need to receive control of the HSC prior to updating its states. Instructions referencing the state received during the same clock cycle are aggregated and the state is updated according to the number of the instructions. The state is evaluated with respect to a threshold condition. If it is met, then the HSC outputs an event to a processor. The processor then identifies a thread impacted by the event and takes a predetermined action based on the event (e.g. blocking, branching, unblocking of the thread).