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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2015
Mips Tech, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Andrew Webber, Hertfordshire, GB;
MIPS Tech, LLC, Campbell, CA (US);
Abstract
A method to dynamically determine which instructions from a plurality of available instructions to issue in each clock cycle in a multithreaded processor capable of issuing a plurality of instructions in each clock cycle, comprises the steps of: determining a highest priority instruction from the plurality of available instructions; determining the compatibility of the highest priority instruction with each of the remaining available instructions; and issuing the highest priority instruction together with other instructions compatible with the highest priority instruction in the same clock cycle; wherein the highest priority instruction cannot be a speculative instruction. The effect of this is that speculative instructions are only ever issued together with at least one non-speculative instruction.