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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2023
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Shekhar Yeshwant Borkar, Beaverton, OR (US);
Nitin Yeshwant Borkar, Redmond, WA (US);
Rishi Khan, Wilmington, DE (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include a processing unit (PU) employing micro-operations (micro-ops) random access memory (RAM) as main program memory. The micro-ops RAM comprises row circuits each associated with a micro-op and configured to store control signal parameters and output ports configured to be coupled to a register file and one or more execution units. In contrast to fetching and decoding instructions of an ISA in a conventional PU, the processing unit loads a main program comprising micro-ops into the row circuits of the micro-ops RAM. When executing an individual micro-op of the main program, the processing unit activates a row circuit in the micro-ops RAM to cause its stored control signal parameters to be communicated through the output ports of the micro-ops RAM to the register file and/or the one or more execution units and avoids the need for a decoding stage circuit, advantageously decreasing processing latency.