US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 1 for "Granular source read scheduling for instruction execution" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,615, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Granular source read scheduling for instruction execution" was invented by David K. Li (Austin, Texas), Ana Lucia Rescala Loper (Austin, Texas), Arun Bansal (Austin, Texas), Chance C. Coats (Austin, Texas) and Zeran Zhu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to accessing source data in single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) pipelines. In some embodiments, multiple categories of operand resource circuits are configured to provide operands for instructions executed by processor pipeline circuitry. Per-resource arbitratio...