US 11,748,024 B2
Apparatus and method of managing registers based on register group
Sungrae Lee, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jan. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/145,961.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0039951 (KR), filed on Apr. 1, 2020; and application No. 10-2020-0068604 (KR), filed on Jun. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0311657 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0655 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 12/0284 (2013.01); G06F 13/16 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a register block including a plurality of register groups;
a plurality of processing circuits connected to the register block, each respective processing circuit among the plurality of processing circuits being configured to operate based on data stored in a different register group among the plurality of register groups; and
a register manager configured to,
receive updated data from a host,
receive a copy request for at least one register group among the plurality of register groups from at least one processing circuit among the plurality of processing circuits, and
copy at least a portion of the updated data to the at least one register group in response to the copy request.