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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:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Peterson, Portland, OR (US);
Glenn C Poole, Fremont, CA (US);
Mohammed Sriti, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Renditon, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
39580041 ; 39580017 ; 395385 ;
Abstract
A method for operating a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) processor that executes normal RISC instructions and special RISC instructions. The method comprises the step of controlling the RISC processor to perform a single operation, using a single functional unit of the RISC processor, in response to each normal RISC instruction. The method also comprises the step of controlling the RISC processor to perform multiple operations, using multiple functional units of the RISC processor in parallel, in response to each special RISC instruction.