Hardware simulation
US10824451B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 11, 2015 |
| Grant date | Nov 3, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 4, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2117/08
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Simulation of execution of a processing workload by a target hardware device is provided by providing workload data specifying the processing workload, passing the workload data to both a primary partial simulation and a complementary partial simulation that run in parallel and acquire input data from different levels of abstraction of the target hardware and then simulating execution of the processing workload using a primary partial simulation to generate primary partial result state data and using the complementary partial simulation to generate complementary partial result state data. The target hardware device may be a graphics processing unit and the workload data may specify the processing to be performed in a hardware independent form, such as, for example, OpenGL ES. The host system supporting the simulation may include a graphics processing unit serving to provide the complementary partial simulation due to its own execution of the workload data.
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