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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2018
Mips Tech, Llc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
James Hippisley Robinson, New York, NY (US);
Morgyn Taylor, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew Fortune, Otley, GB;
Richard Fuhler, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Patel, San Ramon, CA (US);
MIPS Tech, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Instruction set architectures (ISAs) and apparatus and methods related thereto comprise an instruction set that includes one or more instructions which identify the global pointer (GP) register as an operand (e.g., base register or source register) of the instruction. Identification can be implicit. By implicitly identifying the GP register as an operand of the instruction, one or more bits of the instruction that were dedicated to explicitly identifying the operand (e.g., base register or source register) can be used to extend the size of one or more other operands, such as the offset or immediate, to provide longer offsets or immediates.