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Michael A Ang

Eino Jacobs

Yen C Lee

Software creates a compressed instruction format for a VLIW processor which allows greater efficiency in use of cache and memory. Instructions are byte aligned and variable length. Branch targets are uncompressed. Format bits specify how many issue slots are used in a following instruction. NOPS are not stored in memory. Individual operations are compressed according to features such as whether they are resultless, guarded, short, zeroary, unary, or binary. Instructions are stored in compressed form in memory and in cache. Instructions are decompressed on the fly after being read out from cache.

Compressed instruction format for use in a VLIW processor and processor

The software which produces a shuffled bit stream which bit stream allows for a simplified cache layout. This object is met using computer software which includes code for receiving a compiled and linked object module produced by a compiler and/or linker and code for swizzling the compiled and linked software to produce a second object module. The second object module is suitable for being deswizzled upon reading from a cache memory using a cache structure whose output bus wires are not crossed.

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