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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 23, 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 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 12/0802 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3844 (2013.01); G06F 9/3804 (2013.01); G06F 9/3848 (2013.01); G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 12/0802 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a branch processing method comprising receiving information from at least two branch execution units; writing two updates per clock cycle to respective first and second write queues based on the information; and writing from the first write queue up to two updates per clock cycle into plural tables of a first predictor and a single update for the single clock cycle when there is an expected write collision, the first predictor comprising a single write or read/write port.