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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2017
The Arizona Board of Regents, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Paul G. Flikkema, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
The Arizona Board of Regents, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for prioritizing executions of a plurality of instructions in a computer system (such as an embedded system) are disclosed. An instruction can be associated with a priority and an atomicity. When an instruction is fetched, the computer system can access the priority and atomicity information together with the accessing the operand and decoding the instruction. The instruction may be executed in accordance with the fetched priority and atomicity. In some situations, the plurality of instructions may be executed in parallel by multiple functional units. Some of the functional units may be the same type, and therefore allowing multiple instructions to use the same type of functional unit at the same time, without waiting for another instruction to finish.