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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2005
Gilbert Wolrich, Framingham, MA (US);
Debra Bernstein, Sudbury, MA (US);
Matthew J. Adiletta, Worcester, MA (US);
William Wheeler, Southborough, MA (US);
Gilbert Wolrich, Framingham, MA (US);
Debra Bernstein, Sudbury, MA (US);
Matthew J. Adiletta, Worcester, MA (US);
William Wheeler, Southborough, MA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
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.