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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary L Brown, Aloha, OR (US);
Donald D Parker, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395380 ; 395800 ; 364D / ; 3642387 ; 3642393 ; 3642395 ; 3642318 ; 36423223 ; 3642549 ; 364254 ;
Abstract
A circuit and method for supplying and aligning a block of multiple variable length macro instructions to an instruction buffer. Only one cycle is required to align and rotate the block of instruction code. A last byte vector of the instruction code in the instruction buffer is scanned from the last byte in a direction from back to front, thereby saving time. Rotating begins immediately so that a next block of instruction code is available in a next cycle. The block is stored in the instruction buffer after all macroinstructions therein have been steered to the decoder.