Patents by Inventor David B. SHEFFIELD
David B. SHEFFIELD has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230418655Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Rajesh M. SANKARAN, Gilbert NEIGER, Narayan RANGANATHAN, Stephen R. VAN DOREN, Joseph NUZMAN, Niall D. MCDONNELL, Michael A. O'HANLON, Lokpraveen B. MOSUR, Tracy Garrett DRYSDALE, Eriko NURVITADHI, Asit K. MISHRA, Ganesh VENKATESH, Deborah T. MARR, Nicholas P. CARTER, Jonathan D. PEARCE, Edward T. GROCHOWSKI, Richard J. GRECO, Robert VALENTINE, Jesus CORBAL, Thomas D. FLETCHER, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Dwight P. MANLEY, Mark J. CHARNEY, Jeffrey J. COOK, Paul CAPRIOLI, Koichi YAMADA, Kent D. GLOSSOP, David B. SHEFFIELD
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Publication number: 20230315459Abstract: Techniques for synchronous microthreaded execution are described. An example includes a logical processor to execute one or more threads in a first mode; and a synchronous microthreading (SyMT) co-processor coupled to the logical processor to execute lightweight microthreads, with each lightweight microthread having an independent register state, upon an execution of an instruction to enter into SyMT mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: David B. SHEFFIELD, Erich BOLEYN, Jonathan PEARCE, Sofia PEDIADITAKI, Jeffrey COOK, Shreesha SRINATH, Ching-Kai LIANG, Tyler SONDAG
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Publication number: 20230315455Abstract: Techniques for synchronous microthreaded execution are described. An example includes a logical processor to execute one or more threads in a first mode; and a synchronous microthreading (SyMT) co-processor coupled to the logical processor to execute lightweight microthreads, with each lightweight microthread having an independent register state, upon an execution of an instruction to enter into SyMT mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: David B. SHEFFIELD, Erich BOLEYN, Jonathan PEARCE, Sofia PEDIADITAKI, Jeffrey COOK, Shreesha SRINATH, Ching-Kai LIANG, Tyler SONDAG
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Publication number: 20230315460Abstract: Techniques for synchronous microthreaded execution are described. An example includes a logical processor to execute one or more threads in a first mode; and a synchronous microthreading (SyMT) co-processor coupled to the logical processor to execute lightweight microthreads, with each lightweight microthread having an independent register state, upon an execution of an instruction to enter into SyMT mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: David B. SHEFFIELD, Erich BOLEYN, Jonathan PEARCE, Sofia PEDIADITAKI, Jeffrey COOK, Shreesha SRINATH, Ching-Kai LIANG, Tyler SONDAG
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Publication number: 20230315572Abstract: Techniques for synchronous microthreaded execution are described. An example includes a logical processor to execute one or more threads in a first mode; and a synchronous microthreading (SyMT) co-processor coupled to the logical processor to execute lightweight microthreads, with each lightweight microthread having an independent register state, upon an execution of an instruction to enter into SyMT mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: David B. SHEFFIELD, Erich BOLEYN, Jonathan PEARCE, Sofia PEDIADITAKI, Jeffrey COOK, Shreesha SRINATH, Ching-Kai LIANG, Tyler SONDAG
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Publication number: 20230315445Abstract: Techniques for synchronous microthreaded execution are described. An example includes a logical processor to execute one or more threads in a first mode; and a synchronous microthreading (SyMT) co-processor coupled to the logical processor to execute lightweight microthreads, with each lightweight microthread having an independent register state, upon an execution of an instruction to enter into SyMT mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: David B. SHEFFIELD, Erich BOLEYN, Jonathan PEARCE, Sofia PEDIADITAKI, Jeffrey COOK, Shreesha SRINATH, Ching-Kai LIANG, Tyler SONDAG
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Publication number: 20230315462Abstract: Techniques for synchronous microthreaded execution are described. An example includes a logical processor to execute one or more threads in a first mode; and a synchronous microthreading (SyMT) co-processor coupled to the logical processor to execute lightweight microthreads, with each lightweight microthread having an independent register state, upon an execution of an instruction to enter into SyMT mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: David B. SHEFFIELD, Erich BOLEYN, Jonathan PEARCE, Sofia PEDIADITAKI, Jeffrey COOK, Shreesha SRINATH, Ching-Kai LIANG, Tyler SONDAG
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Publication number: 20230315461Abstract: Techniques for synchronous microthreaded execution are described. An example includes a logical processor to execute one or more threads in a first mode; and a synchronous microthreading (SyMT) co-processor coupled to the logical processor to execute lightweight microthreads, with each lightweight microthread having an independent register state, upon an execution of an instruction to enter into SyMT mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: David B. SHEFFIELD, Erich BOLEYN, Jonathan PEARCE, Sofia PEDIADITAKI, Jeffrey COOK, Shreesha SRINATH, Ching-Kai LIANG, Tyler SONDAG
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Publication number: 20230315458Abstract: Techniques for using soft-barrier hints are described. An example includes a synchronous microthreading (SyMT) co-processor coupled to a logical processor to execute a plurality of microthreads, with each microthread having an independent register state, upon an execution of an instruction to enter into SyMT mode, wherein the SyMT co-processor is further to support a soft-barrier hint instruction in code which when processed by a microthread is to pause execution of the microthread to be resumed based at least in part on a data structure having at least one entry, the entry to include an instruction pointer of the soft-barrier hint instruction and a count of microthreads that have encountered the soft-barrier hint instruction at the instruction pointer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Shreesha SRINATH, Jonathan PEARCE, David B. SHEFFIELD, Ching-Kai LIANG, Jeffrey COOK
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Publication number: 20230315444Abstract: Techniques for synchronous microthreaded execution are described. An example includes a logical processor to execute one or more threads in a first mode; and a synchronous microthreading (SyMT) co-processor coupled to the logical processor to execute lightweight microthreads, with each lightweight microthread having an independent register state, upon an execution of an instruction to enter into SyMT mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: David B. SHEFFIELD, Erich BOLEYN, Jonathan PEARCE, Sofia PEDIADITAKI, Jeffrey COOK, Shreesha SRINATH, Ching-Kai LIANG, Tyler SONDAG
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Patent number: 11693691Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Rajesh M. Sankaran, Gilbert Neiger, Narayan Ranganathan, Stephen R. Van Doren, Joseph Nuzman, Niall D. McDonnell, Michael A. O'Hanlon, Lokpraveen B. Mosur, Tracy Garrett Drysdale, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Asit K. Mishra, Ganesh Venkatesh, Deborah T. Marr, Nicholas P. Carter, Jonathan D. Pearce, Edward T. Grochowski, Richard J. Greco, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal, Thomas D. Fletcher, Dennis R. Bradford, Dwight P. Manley, Mark J. Charney, Jeffrey J. Cook, Paul Caprioli, Koichi Yamada, Kent D. Glossop, David B. Sheffield
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Patent number: 11416281Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Rajesh M. Sankaran, Gilbert Neiger, Narayan Ranganathan, Stephen R. Van Doren, Joseph Nuzman, Niall D. McDonnell, Michael A. O'Hanlon, Lokpraveen B. Mosur, Tracy Garrett Drysdale, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Asit K. Mishra, Ganesh Venkatesh, Deborah T. Marr, Nicholas P. Carter, Jonathan D. Pearce, Edward T. Grochowski, Richard J. Greco, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal, Thomas D. Fletcher, Dennis R. Bradford, Dwight P. Manley, Mark J. Charney, Jeffrey J. Cook, Paul Caprioli, Koichi Yamada, Kent D. Glossop, David B. Sheffield
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Publication number: 20220164218Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Rajesh M. SANKARAN, Gilbert NEIGER, Narayan RANGANATHAN, Stephen R. VAN DOREN, Joseph NUZMAN, Niall D. MCDONNELL, Michael A. O'HANLON, Lokpraveen B. MOSUR, Tracy Garrett DRYSDALE, Eriko NURVITADHI, Asit K. MISHRA, Ganesh VENKATESH, Deborah T. MARR, Nicholas P. CARTER, Jonathan D. PEARCE, Edward T. GROCHOWSKI, Richard J. GRECO, Robert VALENTINE, Jesus CORBAL, Thomas D. FLETCHER, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Dwight P. MANLEY, Mark J. CHARNEY, Jeffrey J. COOK, Paul CAPRIOLI, Koichi YAMADA, Kent D. GLOSSOP, David B. SHEFFIELD
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Patent number: 11243775Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a plurality of registers; a first instruction queue to store first instructions; a second instruction queue to store second instructions; a program order queue having a plurality of portions each associated with one of the plurality of registers, each of the portions having entries to store a state of an instruction, the state comprising an encoding of a use of the register by the instruction and a source instruction queue for the instruction; and a dispatcher to dispatch for execution the first and second instructions from the first and second instruction queues based at least in part on information stored in the program order queue, to manage instruction dependencies between the first instructions and the second instructions. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Andrey Ayupov, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Jonathan D. Pearce, David B. Sheffield
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Patent number: 11188341Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a plurality of execution lanes to perform parallel execution of instructions; and a unified symbolic store address buffer coupled to the plurality of execution lanes, the unified symbolic store address buffer comprising a plurality of entries each to store a symbolic store address for a store instruction to be executed by at least some of the plurality of execution lanes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Jeffrey J. Cook, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Jonathan D. Pearce, David B. Sheffield
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Patent number: 11093277Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Rajesh M. Sankaran, Gilbert Neiger, Narayan Ranganathan, Stephen R. Van Doren, Joseph Nuzman, Niall D. McDonnell, Michael A. O'Hanlon, Lokpraveen B. Mosur, Tracy Garrett Drysdale, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Asit K. Mishra, Ganesh Venkatesh, Deborah T. Marr, Nicholas P. Carter, Jonathan D. Pearce, Edward T. Grochowski, Richard J. Greco, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal, Thomas D. Fletcher, Dennis R. Bradford, Dwight P. Manley, Mark J. Charney, Jeffrey J. Cook, Paul Caprioli, Koichi Yamada, Kent D. Glossop, David B. Sheffield
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Patent number: 10896141Abstract: In one embodiment, a cache memory includes: a plurality of data banks, each of the plurality of data banks having a plurality of entries each to store a portion of a cache line distributed across the plurality of data banks; and a plurality of tag banks decoupled from the plurality of data banks, wherein a tag for a cache line is to be assigned to one of the plurality of tag banks. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Jeffrey J. Cook, Jonathan D. Pearce, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Rishiraj A. Bheda, David B. Sheffield, Abhijit Davare, Anton Alexandrovich Sorokin
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Publication number: 20200401440Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Rajesh M. SANKARAN, Gilbert NEIGER, Narayan RANGANATHAN, Stephen R. VAN DOREN, Joseph NUZMAN, Niall D. MCDONNELL, Michael A. O'HANLON, Lokpraveen B. MOSUR, Tracy Garrett DRYSDALE, Eriko NURVITADHI, Asit K. MISHRA, Ganesh VENKATESH, Deborah T. MARR, Nicholas P. CARTER, Jonathan D. PEARCE, Edward T. GROCHOWSKI, Richard J. GRECO, Robert VALENTINE, Jesus CORBAL, Thomas D. FLETCHER, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Dwight P. MANLEY, Mark J. CHARNEY, Jeffrey J. COOK, Paul CAPRIOLI, Koichi YAMADA, Kent D. GLOSSOP, David B. SHEFFIELD
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Publication number: 20200310815Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a plurality of registers; a first instruction queue to store first instructions; a second instruction queue to store second instructions; a program order queue having a plurality of portions each associated with one of the plurality of registers, each of the portions having entries to store a state of an instruction, the state comprising an encoding of a use of the register by the instruction and a source instruction queue for the instruction; and a dispatcher to dispatch for execution the first and second instructions from the first and second instruction queues based at least in part on information stored in the program order queue, to manage instruction dependencies between the first instructions and the second instructions. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Andrey Ayupov, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Jonathan D. Pearce, David B. Sheffield
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Publication number: 20200310817Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a plurality of execution lanes to perform parallel execution of instructions; and a unified symbolic store address buffer coupled to the plurality of execution lanes, the unified symbolic store address buffer comprising a plurality of entries each to store a symbolic store address for a store instruction to be executed by at least some of the plurality of execution lanes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Jeffrey J. Cook, Srikanth T. Srinivasan, Jonathan D. Pearce, David B. Sheffield