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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. 14, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
David Vivian Jaggar, Cherry Hinton, GB;
Assignee:
Advanced RISC Machines Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395800 ; 395385 ; 395570 ;
Abstract
A data processing system is described utilising two instruction sets. Both instruction sets control processing using full N-bit data pathways within a processor core 2. One instruction set is a 32-bit instruction set and the other is a 16-bit instruction set. Both instruction sets are permanently installed and have associated instruction decoding hardware 30, 36, 38.