Patent ID: 11940947
Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A system comprising:
one or more processing units to:
compute a first value using at least one processing unit of the one or more processing units;
either prior to concurrently with writing the first value to memory, update a minimum value of a dedicated min/max collection hardware unit to include the first value computed using the one or more processing unit;
compute a second value using the at least processing unit of the one or more processing units;
either prior to or concurrently with writing the second value to the memory, update a maximum value of the dedicated min/max collection hardware unit to include the second value computed using the one or more processing units; and
compare at least one of the minimum value or the maximum value to one or more threshold values.