Patent ID: 8255592
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of managing data movement in a cell broadband engine processor, comprising: determining one or more idle synergistic processing elements (SPEs) among multiple SPEs in the cell broadband engine processor; creating a first SPE of the one or more idle SPEs as a managing SPE, informing a computing SPE among said multiple SPEs of a starting effective address of a local storage (LS) of said managing SPE and an effective address for a command queue; and managing, by the managing SPE, movement of data associated with computing of said computing SPE based on one or more commands in the command queue, wherein the one or more commands were sent from the computing SPE to the managing SPE, wherein the managing SPE comprises a data buffer located in the LS, and wherein the managing SPE managing movement of data associated with computing of said computing SPE based on the one or more commands comprises,