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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1995
David J Knapp, Austin, TX (US);
Horace C Ho, Austin, TX (US);
Oasis Design, Inc., , US;
Abstract
Two embodiments of a digital signal processor are described. Each embodiment is configured with an instruction processing pipeline including an execute-write pipeline stage. When an instruction reaches the execute-write pipeline stage, the instruction is executed and the corresponding result is written to the specified destination. Additionally, the execute-write stage maintains a relatively short pipeline. One embodiment described herein employs an instruction set in which the destination of an instruction may be encoded within a subsequent instruction. The number of bits utilized to encode a particular instruction is reduced by the number of bits that would have specified the destination.