APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACTIVATING AND SHUTTING DOWN ENHANCED MODULES WITHIN AN ACTIVATED PIPELINE STAGE BASED ON PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS AND MODULE PRIORITY
Patent №
US 9,348,406
Granted
2016-05-24
Filed 2012
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
1
hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
13457011
The present invention discloses a method of processing instructions in a pipeline-based central processing unit, wherein the pipeline is partitioned into base pipeline stages and enhanced pipeline stages according to functions, the base pipeline stages being activated all the while, and the enhanced pipeline stages being activated or shutdown according to requirements for performance of a workload. The present invention further discloses a method of processing instructions in a pipeline-based central processing unit, wherein the pipeline is partitioned into base pipeline stages and enhanced pipeline stages according to functions, each pipeline stage being partitioned into a base module and at least one enhanced module, the base module being activated all the while, and the enhanced module being activated or shutdown according to requirements for performance of a workload.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 380710923
Assignors
SHEN, WEN BO, SHAO, PENG, LI, YU, CHANG, XIAO TAO, GE, YI, WANG, HUAYONG, ZOU, HUAN HAO
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