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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1994

Filed:

Aug. 10, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:

Brian D McMinn, Austin, TX (US);

Robert H Perlman, San Jose, CA (US);

Prem Sobel, Pondicherry, IN;

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395800 ; 395375 ; 395425 ; 364247 ; 3642473 ; 3642474 ; 3642445 ; 3649765 ; 364933 ; 3649333 ; 36493361 ; 3649657 ; 364D / ;
Abstract

A processor for collecting boolean conditions of multiple operations includes a condition collection register which may be written and read in parallel or written serially and into which a single bit is shifted from either the left or the right, and a processor instruction decoder that decodes one operand register addresses as a read address for the condition collection register, and three operand register addresses as a write address for said condition collection register.


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