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Apparatus with shared transactional processing resource, and data processing method

US10908944B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Arm Limited · GB

Inventors

Stephan Diestelhorst · Dresden, DE
Matthew James Horsnell · Cambridge, GB
Guy Larri · Cambridge, GB

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 2, 2021
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 8, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/466
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus (2) with multiple processing elements (4, 6, 8) has shared transactional processing resources (10, 50, 75) for supporting processing of transactions, which comprise operations performed speculatively following a transaction start event whose results are committed following a transaction end event. The transactional processing resources may have a significant overhead and sharing these between the processing elements helps reduce energy consumption and circuit area.

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