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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
May. 15, 2020
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Martin Langhammer, Alderbury, GB;
Gregg William Baeckler, San Jose, CA (US);
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Integrated circuits that include lightweight processor cores are provided. Each processor core may be configured to execute a series of instructions. At least one of the instructions may include an embedded delay field with a value specifying the amount of time that instruction needs to wait before proceeding to the next instruction to avoid a data hazard. The value of the delay field may be determined by a compiler during software compile time. Such delay field may also be used in conjunction with branch instructions to specify a number of no-operations (NOPs) for one or more associated branch delay slots and may also be used to reduce data forwarding cost.