Axis Ab

Hans-Peter Nilsson

Niclas Danielsson

Markus Skans

Mikael Pendse

Kenny Ranerup

Per Zander

Jan Bengtsson

Mikael Asker

Ronny Ranerup

A method and system are disclosed. The method may include receiving instructions in a hardware accelerator coupled to a computing device. The instructions may describe operations and data dependencies between the operations. The operations and the data dependencies may be predetermined. The method may include performing a splitter operation in the hardware accelerator, performing an operation in each of a plurality of branches, and performing a combiner operation in the hardware accelerator.

Conditional flow with hardware acceleration

Integrated circuit and method for bringing an integrated circuit to execute instructions

In-code context data used for exception handling is incorporated into a special call instruction which is recognized by the processor. The information is skipped at the time of the function call and read at the time of the stack unwinding. This special call instruction may be implemented to run at no extra cycle costs compared to normal instructions, except for the external execution time dependencies from such machinery as a cache involved in the instruction fetching, since it would never be necessary during normal execution to actually access the information. The information is only accessed during exception handling.

Exception handling utilizing call instruction with context information

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Lund, Sweden

Hans-Peter Nilsson