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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2023
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Quentin Éric Nouvel, Antibes, FR;
Luca Nassi, Antibes, FR;
Nicola Piano, Antibes, FR;
Albin Pierrick Tonnerre, Nice, FR;
Geoffray Matthieu Lacourba, Nice, FR;
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
There is provided an apparatus, method for data processing. The apparatus comprises post decode cracking circuitry responsive to receipt of decoded instructions from decode circuitry of a processing pipeline, to crack the decoded instructions into micro-operations to be processed by processing circuitry of the processing pipeline. The post decode cracking circuitry is responsive to receipt of a decoded instruction suitable for cracking into a plurality of micro-operations including at least one pair of micro-operations having a producer-consumer data dependency, to generate the plurality of micro-operations including a producer micro-operation and a consumer micro-operation, and to assign a transfer register to transfer data between the producer micro-operation and the consumer micro-operation.