ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,899, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Scoreboard for register data cache" was invented by Winnie W. Yeung (San Jose, Calif.), Zelin Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Cheng Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hungse Cha (Campbell, Calif.) and Leela Kishore Kothamasu (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to graphics processor data caches. In some embodiments, datapath executes instructions that operate on input operands from architectural registers. Data cache circuitry caches architectural register data for the datapath circuitry. Scoreboard circuitry tracks, for a given archi...