Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Dynamic instruction dependency checking – monitoring or... – Commitment control or register bypass
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-16
2011-08-16
Pan, Daniel (Department: 2183)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing
Dynamic instruction dependency checking, monitoring or...
Commitment control or register bypass
C712S216000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08001362
ABSTRACT:
A processing unit includes a plurality of thread execution units each provided with a performance analysis circuit for measuring various types of events resulting from execution of instructions and a commit stack entry unit for controlling the completion of executed instructions and each executing a thread having a plurality of instructions, a commit scope register for storing instructions of completion candidates stored in each commit stack entry unit by execution by each thread execution unit and performing processing for completion of instructions included in the thread, and a thread selecting means for sending commit events of the instructions to a performance analysis circuit provided in each thread execution unit corresponding to the instructions when performing commit processing for instructions stored in the commit scope register.
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Akizuki Yasunobu
Fusejima Atsushi
Suzuki Takashi
Yoshida Toshio
Fujitsu Limited
Pan Daniel
Staas & Halsey , LLP
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