Patent ID: 11887240
Assignee: IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer readable dataset description of an integrated circuit that, when processed in an integrated circuit manufacturing system, causes the integrated circuit manufacturing system to manufacture a graphics processing unit comprising:
multiple processor groups each formed of one or more processor cores and each configured to render graphics data by processing allocated rendering tasks, wherein data for processed rendering tasks is output to regions of a memory resource;
scheduling logic configured to:
allocate rendering tasks to the processor groups for processing to perform a first render; and
at a time when at least one of the processor groups has not completed processing its allocated task(s) as part of the first render, allocating at least one rendering task for a second render to at least one of the other processor groups for processing; and

progress check logic configured to check the progress indication in response to a processor core requesting access to a region of the memory resource as part of the second render and to enable the processor core to access that region of the resource in response to the progress indication indicating that processing for the first render has been completed for that region.