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Hardware acceleration wait time awareness in central processing units with multi-thread architectures

US9870256B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 13, 2012
Grant dateJan 16, 2018
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Expiry dateApr 26, 2036

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2209/509
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Provided is a hardware accelerator and method, central processing unit, and computing device. A hardware accelerating method includes, in response to a request for a new task issued by a hardware thread, accelerating processing of the new task and producing a processing result for the task. A predicting step predicts total waiting time of the new task for returning to a specified address associated with the hardware thread.

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