公开(公告)号：US20140289499A1

公开(公告)日：2014-09-25

申请号：US14299023

申请日：2014-06-09

Applicant: ARM Limited

Inventor： Simon JONES ,  Andreas ENGH-HALSTVEDT ,  Aske Simon CHRISTENSEN

IPC: G06F9/30

CPC classification number: G06F9/30189 ,  G06F9/30058 ,  G06F9/30145 ,  G06F9/3877

Abstract: An apparatus for processing data 2 is provided including processing circuitry 24 controlled by an instruction decoder 20 in response to a stream of program instructions. There is also provided dedicated function hardware 12 configured to receive output data from the processing circuitry and to perform a dedicated processing operation. The instruction decoder 20 is responsive to an end instruction 54 and a software processing flag (blend_shade_enabled) to control the processing circuitry to end a current software routine, to generate output data and in dependence upon the software processing flag either trigger processing of the output data by the dedicated function hardware or trigger the processing circuitry to perform a further software routine upon the output data to generate software generated result data instead of hardware generated result data as generated by the dedicated hardware circuitry.

Abstract translation: 提供了一种用于处理数据2的装置，其包括响应于程序指令流由指令解码器20控制的处理电路24。 还提供了专用功能硬件12，其被配置为从处理电路接收输出数据并执行专用处理操作。 指令解码器20响应于结束指令54和软件处理标志（blend_shade_enabled）来控制处理电路以结束当前软件程序，以产生输出数据，并根据软件处理标志触发输出数据的处理 通过专用功能硬件或触发处理电路，以在输出数据上执行另外的软件程序以产生软件产生的结果数据，而不是由专用硬件电路产生的硬件产生的结果数据。