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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 15, 2016
Applicant:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventor:

John M. King, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/312 (2018.01); G06F 9/32 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3802 (2013.01); G06F 9/30043 (2013.01); G06F 9/384 (2013.01); G06F 9/3824 (2013.01); G06F 9/3834 (2013.01); G06F 9/3836 (2013.01); G06F 9/3855 (2013.01); G06F 9/3857 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for load queue (LDQ) and store queue (STQ) entry allocations at address generation time that maintains age-order of instructions is described. In particular, writing LDQ and STQ entries are delayed until address generation time. This allows the load and store operations to dispatch, and younger operations (which may not be store and load operations) to also dispatch and execute their instructions. The address generation of the load or store operation is held at an address generation scheduler queue (AGSQ) until a load or store queue entry is available for the operation. The tracking of load queue entries or store queue entries is effectively being done in the AGSQ instead of at the decode engine. The LDQ and STQ depth is not visible from a decode engine's perspective, and increases the effective processing and queue depth.


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