Reconfigurable virtual graphics and compute processor pipeline

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United States of America

PATENT NO 12254527
APP PUB NO 20210049729A1
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16879991

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A graphics processing unit (GPU) includes a plurality of programmable processing cores configured to process graphics primitives and corresponding data and a plurality of fixed-function hardware units. The plurality of processing cores and the plurality of fixed-function hardware units are configured to implement a configurable number of virtual pipelines to concurrently process different command flows. Each virtual pipeline includes a configurable number of fragments and an operational state of each virtual pipeline is specified by a different context. The configurable number of virtual pipelines can be modified from a first number to a second number that is different than the first number. An emulation of a fixed-function hardware unit can be instantiated on one or more of the graphics processing cores in response to detection of a bottleneck in a fixed-function hardware unit. One or more of the virtual pipelines can then be reconfigured to utilize the emulation instead of the fixed-function hardware unit.

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  • ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Mantor, Michael Orlando, US 134 1134
McCrary, Rex Eldon Orlando, US 30 120
Paltashev, Timour T Santa Clara, US 11 135

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