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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:
Oct. 18, 2010

Filed:

Jun. 21, 2005
Applicants:

Gilbert Wolrich, Framingham, MA (US);

Debra Bernstein, Sudbury, MA (US);

Matthew J. Adiletta, Worcester, MA (US);

William Wheeler, Southborough, MA (US);

Inventors:

Gilbert Wolrich, Framingham, MA (US);

Debra Bernstein, Sudbury, MA (US);

Matthew J. Adiletta, Worcester, MA (US);

William Wheeler, Southborough, MA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2005.12); G06F 13/14 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A parallel, multi-threaded processor system and technique for arbitrating command requests is described. The system includes a plurality of microengines, a plurality of shared system resources and a global command arbiter. The global command arbiter uses a command request protocol that is based on the shared system resources and command type to grant or deny a microengine command request for a shared resource.


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