Patent · US Active

Data processing

US10671426B2 · kind B2 · utility

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4References

15Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Arm Limited · GB

Inventors

Curtis Glenn Dunham · Austin, US
Jonathan Curtis Beard · Austin, US
Roxana Rusitoru · Cambridge, GB

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 28, 2016
Grant date	Jun 2, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 21, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F13/1663
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Data processing apparatus comprises one or more interconnected processing elements; each processing element being configured to execute processing instructions of program tasks; each processing element being configured to save context data relating to a program task following execution of that program task by that processing element; and to load context data, previously saved by that processing element or another of the processing elements, at resumption of execution of a program task; each processing element having respective associated format definition data to define one or more sets of data items for inclusion in the context data; the apparatus comprising format selection circuitry to communicate the format definition data of each of the processing elements with others of the processing elements and to determine, in response to the format definition data for each of the processing elements, a common set of data items for inclusion in the context data.

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