Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus, methods, and systems for unstructured data flow in a configurable spatial accelerator with predicate propagation and merging
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Application No.: US15944546Application Date: 2018-04-03
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Publication No.: US11307873B2Publication Date: 2022-04-19
- Inventor: Pablo Halpern , Kermin E. Fleming , James Sukha
- 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: G06F9/448
- IPC: G06F9/448 ; G06F15/82

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to unstructured data flow in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a configurable spatial accelerator includes a data path having a first branch and a second branch, and the data path comprises at least one processing element; a switch circuit comprising a switch control input to receive a first switch control value to couple an input of the switch circuit to the first branch and a second switch control value to couple the input of the switch circuit to the second branch; a pick circuit comprising a pick control input to receive a first pick control value to couple an output of the pick circuit to the first branch and a second pick control value to couple the output of the pick circuit to a third branch of the data path; a predicate propagation processing element to output a first edge predicate value and a second edge predicate value based on (e.g., both of) a switch control value from the switch control input of the switch circuit and a first block predicate value; and a predicate merge processing element to output a pick control value to the pick control input of the pick circuit and a second block predicate value based on both of a third edge predicate value and one of the first edge predicate value or the second edge predicate value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190303153A1 APPARATUS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR UNSTRUCTURED DATA FLOW IN A CONFIGURABLE SPATIAL ACCELERATOR Public/Granted day:2019-10-03
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