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Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 1997

Filed:

Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:

Gene W Shen, Mountain View, CA (US);

John Szeto, Oakland, CA (US);

Niteen A Patkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Michael C Shebanow, Plano, TX (US);

Assignee:

Hal Computer Systems, Inc., Campbell, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395591 ; 39518314 ;
Abstract

A high-performance processor is disclosed with structure and methods for: (1) aggressively scheduling long latency instructions including load/store instructions while maintaining precise state; (2) maintaining and restoring precise state at any instruction boundary; (3) tracking instruction status to maintain precise state; (4) checkpointing instructions to maintain precise state; (5) creating, maintaining, and using a time-out checkpoint; (6) tracking floating-point exceptions; (7) creating, maintaining, and using a watchpoint for plural, simultaneous, unresolved-branch evaluation; and (9) increasing processor throughput while maintaining precise state.


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Shen, Gene. (1997). Processor structure and method for maintaining and restoring precise (U.S. Patent No. 5649136). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5649136

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