Patents by Inventor Jamison D. Collins

Jamison D. Collins 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).

  • Patent number: 10635438
    Abstract: A method and system to provide user-level multithreading are disclosed. The method according to the present techniques comprises receiving programming instructions to execute one or more shared resource threads (shreds) via an instruction set architecture (ISA). One or more instruction pointers are configured via the ISA; and the one or more shreds are executed simultaneously with a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor includes multiple instruction sequencers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Grochowski, Hong Wang, John P. Shen, Perry H. Wang, Jamison D. Collins, James Held, Partha Kundu, Raya Leviathan, Tin-Fook Ngai
  • Patent number: 10635465
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relating to preventing the execution of a modified instruction. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a hardware binary translator to translate an instruction to a translated instruction, and a consistency hardware manager to prevent execution of the translated instruction by a hardware processor on detection of a modification to a virtual to physical address mapping of the instruction after the translation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Polychronis Xekalakis, Jamison D. Collins, Jason M. Agron
  • Patent number: 10628153
    Abstract: A method and system to provide user-level multithreading are disclosed. The method according to the present techniques comprises receiving programming instructions to execute one or more shared resource threads (shreds) via an instruction set architecture (ISA). One or more instruction pointers are configured via the ISA; and the one or more shreds are executed simultaneously with a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor includes multiple instruction sequencers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Grochowski, Hong Wang, John P. Shen, Perry H. Wang, Jamison D. Collins, James Held, Partha Kundu, Raya Leviathan, Tin-Fook Ngai
  • Patent number: 10613858
    Abstract: A method and system to provide user-level multithreading are disclosed. The method according to the present techniques comprises receiving programming instructions to execute one or more shared resource threads (shreds) via an instruction set architecture (ISA). One or more instruction pointers are configured via the ISA; and the one or more shreds are executed simultaneously with a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor includes multiple instruction sequencers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Grochowski, Hong Wang, John P. Shen, Perry H. Wang, Jamison D. Collins, James Held, Partha Kundu, Raya Leviathan, Tin-Fook Ngai
  • Patent number: 10585667
    Abstract: A method and system to provide user-level multithreading are disclosed. The method according to the present techniques comprises receiving programming instructions to execute one or more shared resource threads (shreds) via an instruction set architecture (ISA). One or more instruction pointers are configured via the ISA; and the one or more shreds are executed simultaneously with a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor includes multiple instruction sequencers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Grochowski, Hong Wang, John P. Shen, Perry H. Wang, Jamison D. Collins, James Held, Partha Kundu, Raya Leviathan, Tin-Fook Ngai
  • Patent number: 10346170
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor includes logic, responsive to a first instruction, to perform an operation on a first source operand and a second source operand associated with the first instruction and write a result of the operation to a destination location comprising a third source operand. The write may be a partial write of the destination location to maintain an unmodified portion of the third source operand. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jayesh Iyer, Jamison D. Collins, Sebastian Winkel
  • Patent number: 10216516
    Abstract: A processing device includes a store instruction identification unit to identify a pair of store instructions among a plurality of instructions in an instruction queue. The pair of store instructions include a first store instruction and a second store instruction. The first data of the first store instruction corresponds to a first memory region adjacent to a second memory region, and a second data of the second store instruction corresponds to the second memory region. The processing device to include a store instruction fusion unit to fuse the first store instruction with the second store instruction resulting in a fused store instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastian Winkel, Jamison D. Collins, Tyler Sondag
  • Publication number: 20180321936
    Abstract: A method and system to provide user-level multithreading are disclosed. The method according to the present techniques comprises receiving programming instructions to execute one or more shared resource threads (shreds) via an instruction set architecture (ISA). One or more instruction pointers are configured via the ISA; and the one or more shreds are executed simultaneously with a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor includes multiple instruction sequencers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Edward Grochowski, Hong Wang, John P. Shen, Perry H. Wang, Jamison D. Collins, James Held, Partha Kundu, Raya Leviathan, Tin-Fook Ngai
  • Publication number: 20180307484
    Abstract: A method and system to provide user-level multithreading are disclosed. The method according to the present techniques comprises receiving programming instructions to execute one or more shared resource threads (shreds) via an instruction set architecture (ISA). One or more instruction pointers are configured via the ISA; and the one or more shreds are executed simultaneously with a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor includes multiple instruction sequencers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Ed Grochowski, Hong Wang, John P. Shen, Perry H. Wang, Jamison D. Collins, James Held, Partha Kundu, Raya Leviathan, Tin-Fook Ngai
  • Publication number: 20180225118
    Abstract: A method and system to provide user-level multithreading are disclosed. The method according to the present techniques comprises receiving programming instructions to execute one or more shared resource threads (shreds) via an instruction set architecture (ISA). One or more instruction pointers are configured via the ISA; and the one or more shreds are executed simultaneously with a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor includes multiple instruction sequencers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Ed Grochowski, Hong Wang, John P. Shen, Perry H. Wang, Jamison D. Collins, James Held, Partha Kundu, Raya Leviathan, Tin-Fook Ngai
  • Publication number: 20180225117
    Abstract: A method and system to provide user-level multithreading are disclosed. The method according to the present techniques comprises receiving programming instructions to execute one or more shared resource threads (shreds) via an instruction set architecture (ISA). One or more instruction pointers are configured via the ISA; and the one or more shreds are executed simultaneously with a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor includes multiple instruction sequencers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Ed Grochowski, Hong Wang, John P. Shen, Perry H. Wang, Jamison D. Collins, James Held, Partha Kundu, Raya Leviathan, Tin-Fook Ngai
  • Patent number: 9952859
    Abstract: A method and system to provide user-level multithreading are disclosed. The method according to the present techniques comprises receiving programming instructions to execute one or more shared resource threads (shreds) via an instruction set architecture (ISA). One or more instruction pointers are configured via the ISA; and the one or more shreds are executed simultaneously with a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor includes multiple instruction sequencers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ed Grochowski, Hong Wang, John P. Shen, Perry H. Wang, Jamison D. Collins, James Held, Partha Kundu, Raya Leviathan, Tin-Fook Ngai
  • Publication number: 20180095761
    Abstract: A processing device includes a store instruction identification unit to identify a pair of store instructions among a plurality of instructions in an instruction queue. The pair of store instructions include a first store instruction and a second store instruction. The first data of the first store instruction corresponds to a first memory region adjacent to a second memory region, and a second data of the second store instruction corresponds to the second memory region. The processing device to include a store instruction fusion unit to fuse the first store instruction with the second store instruction resulting in a fused store instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Sebastian Winkel, Jamison D. Collins, Tyler Sondag
  • Patent number: 9904546
    Abstract: A processor includes a front end to receive an instruction. The processor also includes a core to execute the instruction. The core includes logic to execute a base function of the instruction to yield a result, generate a predicate value of a comparison of the result based upon a predication setting in the instruction, and set the predicate value in a register. The processor also includes a retirement unit to retire the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jayesh Iyer, Jamison D. Collins, Sebastian Winkel, Howard H. Chen
  • Patent number: 9823938
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor includes a front end unit to fetch and decode an instruction. The front end unit includes a first random number generator to generate a random value responsive to a profileable event associated with the instruction. The processor further includes a profile logic to collect profile information associated with the instruction responsive to a sample signal, where the sample signal is based on at least a portion of the random value. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Girish Venkatasubramanian, Jamison D. Collins, Jason M. Agron, Polychronis Xekalakis
  • Publication number: 20160378472
    Abstract: A processor includes a front end to receive an instruction. The processor also includes a core to execute the instruction. The core includes logic to execute a base function of the instruction to yield a result, generate a predicate value of a comparison of the result based upon a predication setting in the instruction, and set the predicate value in a register. The processor also includes a retirement unit to retire the instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Jayesh Iyer, Jamison D. Collins, Sebastian Winkel, Howard H. Chen
  • Publication number: 20160371065
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor includes a front end unit to fetch and decode an instruction. The front end unit includes a first random number generator to generate a random value responsive to a profileable event associated with the instruction. The processor further includes a profile logic to collect profile information associated with the instruction responsive to a sample signal, where the sample signal is based on at least a portion of the random value. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Girish Venkatasubramanian, Jamison D. Collins, Jason M. Agron, Polychronis Xekalakis
  • Publication number: 20160328239
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor includes logic, responsive to a first instruction, to perform an operation on a first source operand and a second source operand associated with the first instruction and write a result of the operation to a destination location comprising a third source operand. The write may be a partial write of the destination location to maintain an unmodified portion of the third source operand. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Jayesh Iyer, Jamison D. Collins, Sebastian Winkel
  • Publication number: 20160283234
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relating to preventing the execution of a modified instruction. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a hardware binary translator to translate an instruction to a translated instruction, and a consistency hardware manager to prevent execution of the translated instruction by a hardware processor on detection of a modification to a virtual to physical address mapping of the instruction after the translation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: POLYCHRONIS XEKALAKIS, Jamison D. Collins, Jason M. Agron
  • Publication number: 20160216971
    Abstract: A method and system to provide user-level multithreading are disclosed. The method according to the present techniques comprises receiving programming instructions to execute one or more shared resource threads (shreds) via an instruction set architecture (ISA). One or more instruction pointers are configured via the ISA; and the one or more shreds are executed simultaneously with a microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor includes multiple instruction sequencers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Ed Grochowski, Hong Wang, John P. Shen, Perry H. Wang, Jamison D. Collins, James Held, Partha Kundu, Raya Leviathan, Tin-Fook Ngai