Sony Corporation

Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center

Tomohiko Kadowaki

Tadahiko Nakamura

A production process standardization system of a semiconductor device for standardizing design rules among companies and smoothening requests for semiconductor production and distribution and re-use of design assets among companies wherein standardized design rules of a semiconductor are commonly managed by a common database management server and wherein a plurality of companies acquire the standardized design rules via the Internet and design the semiconductor device according to the commonly managed design rules, a method of the same, and a storage medium storing that method.

Production process standardization system of semiconductor device and method of same and storage medium storing that method

A processor apparatus which reduces an overhead at the time of switching processing modules and efficiently performs desired processing at a high speed, wherein desired processing is performed by prefetching a series of instructions by a main program prefetcher, pre-decoding the same by a pre-decoder, and supplying the same to a decoder and execution unit via a multiplexer. When an instruction to execute a macro command is detected in the pre-decoder, the instructions of the macro command are prefetched by a macro program prefetcher and pre-decoded in the pre-decoder. As a result, when branching to a macro command, the instructions of the macro command can be immediately supplied to an execution unit only by switching the multiplexer.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tomohiko Kadowaki