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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:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert L Caulk, Jr, Livermore, CA (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395394 ; 395392 ; 395393 ;
Abstract
A pipelined microprocessor is provided with a queuing stage between an instruction fetch stage and an instruction decode stage to facilitate branch instructions and to receive instructions from the fetch stage when the decode stage is stalled. If a branch is incorrectly anticipated the queuing stage has nonbranch sequential instructions for the decode stage while the fetch stage is restarted at the nonbranch sequential instruction stream.