APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING POWER SAVING TECHNIQUES WHEN PROCESSING FLOATING POINT VALUES
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    发明申请
    APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING POWER SAVING TECHNIQUES WHEN PROCESSING FLOATING POINT VALUES 有权
    处理浮动点值时实现节电技术的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20160180489A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-06-23

    申请号:US14581600

    申请日:2014-12-23

    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for reducing power when reading and writing graphics data. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a graphics processor unit (GPU) to process graphics data including floating point data; a set of registers, at least one of the registers of the set partitioned to store the floating point data; and encode/decode logic to reduce a number of binary 1 values being read from the at least one register by causing a specified set of bit positions within the floating point data to be read out as 0s rather than 1s.

    Abstract translation: 描述了一种用于在读取和写入图形数据时降低功率的装置和方法。 例如,设备的一个实施例包括:图形处理器单元(GPU),用于处理包括浮点数据的图形数据; 一组寄存器,被划分为存储浮点数据的集合中的至少一个寄存器; 并且通过使得在浮点数据内的指定的一组位位置被读出为0而不是1s来从而从至少一个寄存器读取的二进制1值的数量被编码/解码。

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