Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reorder buffer permitting parallel processing operations with repair on ordering hazard detection within interconnect circuitry
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Application No.: US14628335Application Date: 2015-02-23
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Publication No.: US09632955B2Publication Date: 2017-04-25
- Inventor: Arthur Laughton , Andrew David Tune , Daniel Sara
- Applicant: ARM LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: GB1406943.9 20140417
- Main IPC: G06F13/16
- IPC: G06F13/16 ; G06F12/08 ; G06F12/0831

Abstract:
A system-on-chip integrated circuit 2 includes interconnect circuitry 4 for communicating transactions between transaction sources and transaction destinations. A reorder buffer 26 serves to buffer and permit reordering of access transactions received from the transaction sources. Processing circuitry performs processing operations in parallel upon a given access transaction taken from the reorder buffer. Hazard detection and repair circuitry serves to detect an ordering hazard arising between the processing operations and if necessary cancel and repeat that processing operation. The access transactions and the reorder buffer are such that access transactions other than the access transaction for which a hazard has been detected may proceed independently of the necessity to cancel and repair that transaction thereby reducing the cost associated with cancelling and repair.
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