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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 03, 1996
Gary L Brown, Aloha, OR (US);
Adrian L Carbine, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Donald D Parker, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A micro-operation queue for holding a plurality of micro-operations supplied simultaneously by a decoder. A plurality of packing multiplexers are coupled to receive the plurality of micro-operations, and valid bits associated therewith, and to provide packed micro-operation data output in which the valid micro-operations are positioned in adjacent outputs, thereby removing all empty slots. A FIFO queue receives the packed data, in responsive to valid micro-operations, stores the valid micro-operations starting with the next available empty queue location. An embodiment described in which the FIFO queue includes a circular queue with a plurality of entries. In one embodiment, alignment multiplexers for the circular queue are combined with the packing multiplexers, to provide a single-level plurality of packing and aligning multiplexers that has a control system that, responsive to the valid bits of the packed data and the next available pointer of the circular queue, packs, aligns, and stores the micro-operations into the circular queue from where they can be issued.