摘要:
The op-code bandwidth limitation of computer systems is alleviated by providing one or more vector buffers. Data is transferred between memory and processor registers in a two part process using the vector buffers. In a first part, a vector request instruction initiates buffering of data by storing data in control registers identifying a set of data elements (a vector) in the memory. When the identifying information is loaded in the control registers, a vector prefetch controller transfers elements of the vector between the memory and a vector buffer. In a second part, vector element operation instructions transfer a next element of the vector between the vector buffer and a specified processor register for use in arithmetic or logic operations.
摘要:
A circuit and method for clipping input integers to a specified range comprising the steps of providing a mask wherein a bit is set for each out-of-range bit and not set for in-range bits and applying the mask to input integers so that any integers outside of the range is clipped to the quantity in the range closest to the integer, thereby producing output integers within a range specified by the mask. Other systems and methods are disclosed.
摘要:
A floating point processing system which uses a multiplier unit and an adder unit to perform floating point division and square root operations using both a conventional and a modified form of the Newton-Raphson method. The modified form of the Newton-Raphson method is used in place of the final iteration of the conventional Newton-Raphson so as to compute high precision approximated results with a substantial improvement in speed. The invention computes approximated results faster and simplifies hardware requirements because no multiplications of numbers of the precision of the result are required.
摘要:
A floating point processing system which uses a multiplier unit and an adder unit to perform floating point division and square root operations using both a conventional and a modified form of the Newton-Raphson method. The modified form of the Newton-Raphson method is used in place of the final iteration of the conventional Newton-Raphson so as to compute high precision approximated results with a substantial improvement in speed. The invention computes approximated results faster and simplifies hardware requirements because no multiplications of numbers of the precision of the result are required.
摘要:
A computer system with mechanisms for providing hint instructions to a processor without altering object code instruction sequences. A computer system according to the present teachings includes elements for generating a hint instruction in response to a set of object code to be executed by the processor and for inserting a break instruction into the object code such that the break instruction causes the processor to obtain and execute the hint instruction. The present techniques for providing hint instructions to a processor may be used to adapt object code to a micro-architecture of the processor.
摘要:
A software system with self-describing attribute vocabularies that enhance the capability of service providers to advertise their resources and that facilitate the addition of new types of attributes and resources to the system. Each self-describing attribute vocabulary is characterized by a corresponding set of attribute properties and a corresponding set of:matching rules that are adapted to the corresponding attribute properties. The software system includes a matching engine that enables a service provider of a resource to describe the resource to the software system in terms of any one or more of the self-describing attribute vocabularies.
摘要:
A software system that provides access control to resources and that disassociates access rights to resources from references to resources to prevent the formation of large and unwieldy access control lists and to enable advanced decentralized security controls. The software system includes a repository that holds a resource descriptor for each resource including lock/permission pairs. Access to particular resources or groups of resources is provided by providing users with the appropriate keys. The keys are themselves are resources with resource descriptors in the repository. Access rights for users may be revoked by deleting keys from the repository. The software system also provides visibility fields for compartmentalizing access to resources. In addition, the software system provides authorizers that maintain audit trails when critical resource such as keys are passed among users and that enable advanced security control when passing resources among users.
摘要:
A memory management system is described which divides each virtual page into two or more sectors. Each of these sectors can then be individually loaded into memory in order to reduce bandwidth consumed loading virtual pages into a physical memory. A TLB for this system includes a plurality of TLB entries. Each TLB entry includes a variable physical page number (PPN FIELD) and a variable presence field. Each bit of the presence field indicates whether a corresponding sector is present in physical memory. The TLB entry also includes a page size field, which indicates the size of the corresponding virtual page. This size field also indirectly controls the number of sectors within that page and, thus, the number of presence bits required. As the page size grows the number of bits required to store the physical page number reduces. These unused bits are then consumed by additional presence bits so that all the bits in the TLB entry are used for all page sizes and number of sectors.
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A method and related control logic for performing in line recovery from deferred exceptions generated by speculative operations. The control logic includes a re-execution register to mark operands of operations that should be re-executed in a special recovery mode. When the processor detects a deferred exception, it branches to the operation that generated the exception and enters the special in-line recovery mode. The processor executes operations non-speculatively in the recovery mode, and marks the result registers of these operations with re-execution flags. The processor then knows whether to re-execute an operation by checking for re-execution flags associated with the operands of an in-line operation. The processor exits recovery mode when it returns to the point where it detected the deferred exception. The re-execution register enables the processor to recover from deferred exceptions using the program code only, without any additional fix-up code or recovery code.
摘要:
A software system with task-specific flexible bindings that enhance the ability to dynamically add and remove resources from availability to tasks and that eliminates the need for coordination of globally unique names. The software system includes a task-specific name space which corresponds to a task executing in the software system. The task-specific name space holds flexible bindings each of which associates a task-specific name used by the task to refer to a desired resource or a set of one or more resources of the computer system and to information that describes the desired resource. The software system includes a resource mediator that obtains a message from the task. The resource mediator keeps information for each resource that identifies a resource handler task for the desired resource by resolving the task-specific name using the flexible binding.