111 results about "Concurrent computing" patented technology

A system and method is presented for synthesizing both a design under test (DUT) and its test environment (i.e., the testbench for the DUT), into an equivalent structural model suitable for execution on a reconfigurable hardware platform. This may be achieved without any change in the existing verification methodology. Behavioral HDL may be translated into a form that can be executed on a reconfigurable hardware platform. A set of compilation transforms are provided that convert behavioral constructs into RTL constructs that can be directly mapped onto an emulator. Such transforms are provided by introducing the concepts of a behavioral clock and a time advance finite state machine (FSM) that determines simulation time and sequences concurrent computing blocks in the DUT and the testbench.

A method for performing a decimal floating point operation. A first operand including a first coefficient and a first exponent is received. The method also includes receiving a second operand that includes a second coefficient and a second exponent. An operation associated with the first operand and the second operand is received. The operation is an addition or a subtraction. Three concurrent calculations are performed on the first operand and the second operand. The first concurrent calculation includes applying the operation to the first operand and the second operand based on a first assumption that the first exponent is equal to the second exponent. The applying the operation based on the first assumption results in a first result and includes utilizing a two cycle adder. The second concurrent calculation includes applying the operation to the first operand and the second operand based on a second assumption that an absolute difference between the first exponent and the second exponent is less than or equal to a number of leading zeros in the coefficient of the operand with the larger exponent. The applying the operation based on the second assumption results in a second result and includes utilizing the two cycle adder. The third concurrent calculation includes applying the operation to the first operand and the second operand based on a third assumption that the absolute difference between the first exponent and the second exponent is greater than the number of leading zeros in the coefficient of the operand with the larger exponent. The applying the operation based on the third assumption results in a third result and includes utilizing the two cycle adder. A final result is selected from the first result, the second result and the third result.

A non-obtrusive activity monitor is proposed for advantageously monitoring and tracing disjunct, concurrent computer system operations in heavily queued computer systems. For each traced and pending computer system operation, the monitor uses a hardware implementation of an event triggered operation graph to trace the path of the computer system operation through the computer system. For each followed path, a unique signature is generated that significantly reduces the amount of trace data to be stored. In a preferred embodiment, the trace information is stored together with a time stamp for debugging and measuring queuing effects and timing behavior in a computer system.

A system generates an executable process for execution by a concurrent computing environment, generates a configuration that specifies configurable properties of the concurrent computing environment, and initiates execution of the executable process, with the concurrent computing environment, to initiate configuration of the concurrent computing environment based on the configurable properties of the configuration.

Some embodiments of the present invention overcome I / O bottlenecks of an EDA work flow by keeping layout data distributed during handoffs among different processing stages. Specifically, some embodiments leverage a concurrent computation paradigm where data is propagated incrementally between stages, and where data processing among consecutive stages and the I / O between stages are executed concurrently. Specifically, different data processing stages can partition the layout data differently, and portions of the layout data that are not required by a data processing stage can be either passed-through or passed-around the data processing stage.

Exemplary embodiments allow a user to create configurations for use in distributed computing environments. Configurations can be arranged in hierarchies in which elements of the hierarchy can inherit characteristics from elements in other layers of the hierarchy. Embodiments also allow a user to flatten a hierarchical configuration to remove hierarchical dependencies and / or inheriting capabilities of elements in the hierarchy. Exemplary embodiments further allow users to deploy a distributed computing configuration on their desktop to evaluate performance of the configuration and then deploy the configuration in a distributed computing environment without having to change programming code run on the desktop / distributed computing environment.

A graphical user interface for a concurrent computing environment that conveys the concurrent nature of a computing environment and allows a user to monitor the status of a concurrent process being executed on multiple concurrent computing units is discussed. The graphical user interface allows the user to target specific concurrent computer units to receive commands. The graphical user interface also alters the command prompt to reflect the currently targeted concurrent computing units.