Patent №
US 8,312,254
Granted
2012-11-13
Filed 2008
Owner
NVIDIA CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
1
hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12054255
An indirect branch instruction takes an address register as an argument in order to provide indirect function call capability for single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) processor architectures. The indirect branch instruction is used to implement indirect function calls, virtual function calls, and switch statements to improve processing performance compared with using sequential chains of tests and branches.
AI classification
Ownership
NVIDIA CORPORATION
assignment · 209310577
Assignors
COON, BRETT W., NICKOLLS, JOHN R., NYLAND, LARS, MILLS, PETER C., LINDHOLM, JOHN ERIK
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