Qualcomm Incorporated

Jeffrey M Schottmiller

James Norris Dieffenderfer

Rodney Wayne Smith

Michael Scott McIlvaine

Brian Stempel

Michael W Morrow

Melinda Joyce Brown

Andrew S Irwin

Fusing immediate value, write-based instructions in instruction processing circuits, and related processor systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first instruction indicating an operation writing an immediate value to a register is detected by an instruction processing circuit. The circuit also detects at least one subsequent instruction indicating an operation that overwrites at least one first portion of the register while maintaining a value of a second portion of the register. The at least one subsequent instruction is converted (or replaced) with a fused instruction(s), which indicates an operation writing the at least one first portion and the second portion of the register. In this manner, conversion of multiple instructions for generating a constant into the fused instruction(s) removes the potential for a read-after-write hazard and associated consequences caused by dependencies between certain instructions, while reducing a number of clock cycles required to process the instructions.

Fusing immediate value, write-based instructions in instruction processing circuits, and related processor systems, methods, and computer-readable media

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Jeffrey M Schottmiller