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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1985
Brian W Case, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rod G Fleck, Mountain View, CA (US);
William M Johnson, San Jose, CA (US);
Cheng-Gang Kong, San Jose, CA (US);
Ole Moller, Nivaa, DK;
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A high speed register file for use by an instruction processor suitable for reduced instruction-set computers (RISCs) is disclosed which is preferably used with an efficient register allocation method. The register file facilitates the passing of parameters between procedures by dynamically providing overlapping registers which are accessible to both procedures. Each procedure also has a set of 'local' registers assigned to it which are inaccessible from other procedures. The register file is divided into a number of blocks and a protection register stores a word which proscribes access by a particular procedure or task to certain blocks. In this manner, an instruction processor using the register file can operate on multiple tasks maintaining the integrity of each from undesired changes occuring in the others.