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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2016
Executing a composite vliw instruction having a scalar atom that indicates an iteration of execution
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bruce M. Fleischer, Bedford Hills, NY (US);
Thomas Winters Fox, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Arpith C. Jacob, Dobbs Ferry, NY (US);
Hans Mikael Jacobson, White Plains, NY (US);
Ravi Nair, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Kevin John Patrick O'Brien, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Daniel Arthur Prener, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A processor core includes a storage device which stores a composite very large instruction word (VLIW) instruction, an instruction unit which obtains the composite VLIW instruction from the storage device and decodes the composite VLIW instruction to determine an operation to perform, and a composite VLIW instruction execution unit which executes the decoded composite VLIW instruction to perform the operation.