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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
May. 23, 1997
Shinji Nanba, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of executing a branch instruction of jumping to a subroutine in a pipeline control system. The pipeline control system, which utilizes a data bus for instruction read operation and also for data read/write operation, performs at least one stage between an instruction fetching stage and an instruction executing stage. A branch instruction is fetched with a branch address fed through an address bus. The content of a first program counter is temporarily saved in a second program counter. The content of the first program counter is then updated with a new branch address. Following this, the content of the second program counter is saved in a computer memory for use as a return address.