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Conditional flow with hardware acceleration

US9990199B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 18, 2015
Grant dateJun 5, 2018
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Expiry dateNov 15, 2036

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T1/20
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system are disclosed. The method may include receiving instructions in a hardware accelerator coupled to a computing device. The instructions may describe operations and data dependencies between the operations. The operations and the data dependencies may be predetermined. The method may include performing a splitter operation in the hardware accelerator, performing an operation in each of a plurality of branches, and performing a combiner operation in the hardware accelerator.

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