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Tariq Kurd

John Redford

Sophie Wilson

Geoffrey Barrett

A processor including a stunt box with an intermediate storage, including a plurality of registers, configured to store a plurality of execution pipe results as a plurality of intermediate results; a storage, communicatively coupled to the intermediate storage, configured to store a plurality of storage results which may include one or more of the plurality of intermediate results; and an arbiter, communicatively coupled to the intermediate storage and the storage, configured to receive the plurality of execution pipe results, the plurality of intermediate results, and the plurality of storage results and to select an output to retire from of the plurality of results, the plurality of intermediate results, and the plurality of storage results.

Stunt box to broadcast and store results until retirement for an out-of-order processor

A load/store unit including a memory queue configured to store a plurality of memory instructions and state information indicating whether each memory instruction of the plurality of memory instructions can be performed independently, with, separately, or after older pending instructions; and a state-selection circuit configured to set a state information of each memory instruction of the plurality of memory instructions in view of an older pending instruction in the memory queue.

Resource locking for load store scheduling in a VLIW processor

An apparatus including a queue configured to store a plurality of instructions and state information indicating whether each instruction of the plurality of instructions can be performed independently of older pending instructions; and a state-selection circuit configured to set a state information of each instruction of the plurality of instructions in view of an older pending instruction in the queue.

Method and system for determining instruction conflict states for issuance of memory instructions in a VLIW processor

A processor including a register file having a plurality of registers, and configured for out-of-order instruction execution, further includes a renamer unit that produces generation numbers that are associated with register file addresses to provide a renamed version of a register that is temporally offset from an existing version of that register rather than assigning a non-programmer-visible physical register as the renamed register.

Renaming with generation numbers

A method and apparatus for zero overheard loops is provided herein. The method includes the steps of identifying, by a decoder, a loop instruction and identifying, by the decoder, a last instruction in a loop body that corresponds to the loop instruction. The method further includes the steps of generating, by the decoder, a branch instruction that returns execution to a beginning of the loop body, and enqueing, by the decoder, the branch instruction into a branch reservation queue concurrently with an enqueing of the last instruction in a reservation queue.

Zero overhead looping by a decoder generating and enqueuing a branch instruction

A processor including a register file having a plurality of registers, and configured for out-of-order instruction execution, further includes a renamer unit that produces generation numbers that are associated with register file addresses to provide a renamed version of a register that is temporally offset from an existing version of that register rather than assigning a non-programmer-visible physical register as the renamed register. The processor includes a small reset DHL Gshare branch prediction unit coupled to an instruction cache and configured to provide speculative addresses to the instruction cache.

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Tariq Kurd