US 11,669,333 B2
Method, apparatus, and system for reducing live readiness calculations in reservation stations
Rodney Wayne Smith, Raleigh, NC (US); Raghavan Madhavan, Cary, NC (US); Luke Yen, Raleigh, NC (US); Shivam Priyadarshi, Morrisville, NC (US); and Yusuf Cagatay Tekmen, Raleigh, NC (US)
Assigned to Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2018, as Appl. No. 15/963,126.
Prior Publication US 2019/0332385 A1, Oct. 31, 2019
Int. Cl. G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 9/3851 (2013.01) [G06F 9/3802 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a first scheduling pool associated with a first minimum scheduling latency;
a second scheduling pool associated with a second minimum scheduling latency, the second minimum scheduling latency greater than the first minimum scheduling latency;
a common instruction picker coupled to both the first scheduling pool and the second scheduling pool; and
a dispatch block coupled to the common instruction picker and configured to:
receive an instruction from the common instruction picker and provide the instruction to an execution pipeline; and
provide wakeup information to the first scheduling pool and the second scheduling pool, wherein the wakeup information comprises dispatch/completion status information.