Via Alliance Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Xiaoyuan Yu

Xin Gao

Jianbin Wang

Qianli Di

Mengchen Yang

Weili Li

Xin-Yu Gao

Penghao Zou

Meng-Chen Yang

A parallelized multiple dispatch ordered queue including an ordered queue, qualify logic, ordered select logic, and dispatch logic. The ordered queue stores candidates in order from oldest to youngest into multiple entries. The ordered queue is divided into N groups in which an i'th group includes every i'th entry of every N entries of the ordered queue, wherein i is an integer less than or equal to N. The qualify logic determines whether any candidate is ready to be dispatched. The ordered select logic respectively determines the oldest candidate in each group that is ready to be dispatched. The dispatch logic dispatches the oldest ready candidates in parallel. The shift logic shifts the stored candidates in the ordered queue to fill any vacant entries between remaining ones of the stored candidates without changing an order of the remaining ones of the stored candidates in the ordered queue. The ordered queue may have any size or depth and N is any suitable integer determining the number of candidates (e.g., instructions) that may be dispatched in parallel.

Parallelized multiple dispatch system and method for ordered queue arbitration

A microprocessor with a fused reservation stations (RS) structure including a primary RS, a secondary RS, and a bypass system. The primary RS has an input for receiving issued instructions, has a push output for pushing the issued instructions to the secondary RS, and has at least one bypass output for dispatching issued instructions that are ready for dispatch. The secondary RS has an input coupled to the push output of the primary RS and has at least one dispatch output. The bypass system selects between the bypass output of the primary RS and at least one dispatch output of the secondary RS for dispatching selected issued instructions. The primary and secondary RS may each be selected from different RS structure types. A unify RS provides a suitable primary RS, and the secondary RS may include multiple queues. The bypass output enables direct dispatch from the primary RS.

Microprocessor with a reservation stations structure including primary and secondary reservation stations and a bypass system

A reissue instruction parking system for a microprocessor including a reservation stations module that dispatches instructions for execution and a reorder buffer that reissues instructions to the reservation stations module during a reissue state, in which the reissue instruction parking system includes at least one first pipeline stage and at least one second pipeline stage, in which the first pipeline stages provide a first reissue instruction from a reissue data path to the reservation stations module during the reissue state and that parks the first reissue instruction once the reservation stations module is determined to be full, and in which the second pipeline stages select a pointer to the reorder buffer which provides a corresponding first reissue instruction onto the reissue data path, in which the second pipeline stages are placed into a hold state when a second full signal is asserted.

System and method of reissue parking for a microprocessor

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