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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:
Dec. 01, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1996
Naveen Krishnamurthy, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nadeem H Firasta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A microprocessor with a circuit that selects at least one instruction from a stream of N successive instruction bytes. The circuit includes a first pointing unit that indicates a position of a first byte of an instruction of the stream of N successive instruction bytes. The circuit also includes a second pointing unit that stores a vector having a length N which indicates a position of a last byte of the instruction in the stream. The circuit further includes a first alignment unit coupled to the first and the second pointing units, the first alignment unit aligns the vector at a position indicating the first byte of an instruction. The circuit includes a first and a second length detecting units that receive the aligned vector in parallel. The first and second length detecting units simultaneously determine the length of a current instruction and the length of a next instruction, respectively, of the stream of N successive instruction bytes.
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