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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Douglas C. Burger, Bellevue, WA (US);
Aaron L. Smith, Seattle, WA (US);
Jan S. Gray, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 9/32 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3806 (2013.01); G06F 9/322 (2013.01); G06F 9/3832 (2013.01); G06F 9/3859 (2013.01); G06F 9/3861 (2013.01);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for implementing bad jump detection in block-based processor architectures. In one example of the disclosed technology, a block-based processor includes one or more block-based processing cores configured to fetch and execute atomic blocks of instructions and a control unit configured to, based at least in part on receiving a branch signal indicating a target location is received from one of the instruction blocks, verify that the target location is a valid branch target.