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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2020
Applicant:
Centaur Technology, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
Thomas C. McDonald, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/32 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3844 (2013.01); G06F 9/30029 (2013.01); G06F 9/30047 (2013.01); G06F 9/30058 (2013.01); G06F 9/321 (2013.01); G06F 9/3848 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a microprocessor, comprising: first logic configured to detect that a fetched cache address matches at least one of two previous cache addresses; and second logic configured to adjust a branch pattern used for conditional branch prediction based on the match and combine the cache address with the adjusted branch pattern to form a conditional branch predictor address.