ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,522, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"User-level threading for simulating multi-core processor" was invented by Hiroshi Inoue (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method improves an execution speed of a host multi-core simulator simulating a target multi-core processor that has a hierarchical architecture including multiple corelets per core that, in turn include multiple functional units. The host multi-core simulator is implemented using multiple OS threads. The method selects layers in the hierarchical architecture to simulate on one of the OS threads, based on a shortest...