Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Memory ordering in acceleration hardware
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Application No.: US15396038Application Date: 2016-12-30
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Publication No.: US10572376B2Publication Date: 2020-02-25
- Inventor: Kermin Elliott Fleming, Jr. , Simon C. Steely, Jr. , Kent D. Glossop
- Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F9/30 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F9/38

Abstract:
An integrated circuit includes a memory interface, coupled to a memory to store data corresponding to instructions, and an operations queue to buffer memory operations corresponding to the instructions. The integrated circuit may include acceleration hardware to execute a sub-program corresponding to the instructions. A set of input queues may include an address queue to receive, from the acceleration hardware, an address of the memory associated with a second memory operation of the memory operations, and a dependency queue to receive, from the acceleration hardware, a dependency token associated with the address. The dependency token indicates a dependency on data generated by a first memory operation of the memory operations. A scheduler circuit may schedule issuance of the second memory operation to the memory in response to the dependency queue receiving the dependency token and the address queue receiving the address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180188997A1 MEMORY ORDERING IN ACCELERATION HARDWARE Public/Granted day:2018-07-05
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