Patents by Inventor Mark M. Gibson

Mark M. Gibson 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: 9959122
    Abstract: A method includes allocating a first single-cycle instruction to a first pipeline that picks single-cycle instructions for execution in program order. The method further includes marking at least one source register of the first single-cycle instruction as ready for execution in the first pipeline in response to all older single-cycle instructions allocated to the first pipeline being ready and eligible to be picked for execution. An apparatus includes a decoder to decode a first single-cycle instruction and to allocate the first single-cycle instruction to a first pipeline. The apparatus further includes a scheduler to pick single-cycle instructions for execution by the first pipeline in program order and to mark at least one source register of the first single-cycle instruction as ready for execution in the first pipeline in response to determining that all older single-cycle instructions allocated to the first pipeline are ready and eligible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Estlick, Jay E. Fleischman, Kevin A. Hurd, Mark M. Gibson, Kelvin D. Goveas, Brian M. Lay
  • Publication number: 20140325187
    Abstract: A method includes allocating a first single-cycle instruction to a first pipeline that picks single-cycle instructions for execution in program order. The method further includes marking at least one source register of the first single-cycle instruction as ready for execution in the first pipeline in response to all older single-cycle instructions allocated to the first pipeline being ready and eligible to be picked for execution. An apparatus includes a decoder to decode a first single-cycle instruction and to allocate the first single-cycle instruction to a first pipeline. The apparatus further includes a scheduler to pick single-cycle instructions for execution by the first pipeline in program order and to mark at least one source register of the first single-cycle instruction as ready for execution in the first pipeline in response to determining that all older single-cycle instructions allocated to the first pipeline are ready and eligible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Estlick, Jay E. Fleischman, Kevin A. Hurd, Mark M. Gibson, Kelvin D. Goveas, Brian M. Lay
  • Patent number: 8219780
    Abstract: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with mitigating the effects of context switch cache and TLB misses are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes a processor configured to run a multiprocessing, virtual memory operating system. The processor may be operably connected to a memory and may include a cache and a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) configured to store TLB entries. The exemplary system may include a context control logic configured to selectively copy data from the TLB to the data store for a first process being swapped out of the processor and to selectively copy data from the data store to the TLB for a second process being swapped into to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: James R. Callister, Eric R. Delano, Rohit Bhatia, Shawn Kenneth Walker, Mark M. Gibson