公开(公告)号：US11334355B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US15586937

申请日：2017-05-04

Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Alan Gatherer ,  Sushma Wokhlu ,  Peter Yan ,  Ywhpyng Harn ,  Ashish Rai Shrivastava ,  Tong Sun ,  Lee Dobson McFearin

IPC: G06F9/38 ,  G06F9/30 ,  G06F13/16 ,  G06F12/0853 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G06F12/0884 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/0868 ,  G06F12/0855

Abstract: Technology for providing data to a processing unit is disclosed. A computer processor may be divided into a master processing unit and consumer processing units. The master processing unit at least partially decodes a machine instruction and determines whether data is needed to execute the machine instruction. The master processing unit sends a request to memory for the data. The request may indicate that the data is to be sent from the memory to a consumer processing unit. The data sent by the memory in response to the request may be stored in local read storage that is close to the consumer processing unit for fast access. The master processing unit may also provide the machine instruction to the consumer processing unit. The consumer processing unit may access the data from the local read storage and execute the machine instruction based on the accessed data.

公开(公告)号：US20180321939A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-08

申请号：US15586937

申请日：2017-05-04

Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Alan Gatherer ,  Sushma Wokhlu ,  Peter Yan ,  Ywhpyng Harn ,  Ashish Rai Shrivastava ,  Tong Sun ,  Lee Dobson McFearin

IPC: G06F9/30 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F9/38

CPC classification number: G06F9/3016 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0656 ,  G06F3/0673 ,  G06F9/3802

Abstract: Technology for providing data to a processing unit is disclosed. A computer processor may be divided into a master processing unit and consumer processing units. The master processing unit at least partially decodes a machine instruction and determines whether data is needed to execute the machine instruction. The master processing unit sends a request to memory for the data. The request may indicate that the data is to be sent from the memory to a consumer processing unit. The data sent by the memory in response to the request may be stored in local read storage that is close to the consumer processing unit for fast access. The master processing unit may also provide the machine instruction to the consumer processing unit. The consumer processing unit may access the data from the local read storage and execute the machine instruction based on the accessed data.