Infineon Technologies North America Corp.

Andreas Grubert

Venkat Mattela

Heonchul Park

Balraj Singh

Danielle G Lemay

A method and apparatus for providing a program counter value within a central processing unit is described. A program counter value comprises n bits and has to be increased by one of a plurality of different fixed increment values. Therefore, an upper partial content of the current program counter value and its value incremented by 1 is provided. Also, a plurality of lower partial contents of the current program counter value incremented by one of the plurality of fixed increment values, respectively are provided, whereby a carry bit is provided. One of the plurality of incremented lower partial contents is selected depending on said respective carry bit. Upper and lower contents are then combined to form a plurality of new program counter values. Upon receiving of control information to select a final increment value one of said new program counter values will be selected.

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Redwood City, CA, United States of America

Andreas Grubert