Patent ID: 11948223
Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A system comprising:
a shader pipe array comprising a plurality of shader pipes, each of the plurality of shader pipes being configured to perform rendering calculations on pixel data;
a redundant shader pipe array;
a plurality of horizontal paths between each of the plurality of shader pipes in the shader pipe array and the redundant shader pipe array;
an operating system configured to provide pixel data for processing by a plurality of shader pipes in a shader pipe array;
a sequencer configured to identify at least one defective shader pipe of the plurality of shader pipes in the shader pipe array, and, in response to identifying the at least one defective shader pipe, generate a signal;
a delay buffer and an output buffer for each of the plurality of shader pipes in the shader pipe array; and
a first switch configured to:
receive the generated signal, and
in response to receiving the generated signal, transfer the pixel data from the at least one of the plurality of shader pipes in the shader pipe array to the redundant shader pipe array via at least one of the plurality of horizontal paths when the at least one of the plurality of shader pipes is identified as defective.