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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999

Filed:

Oct. 08, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Simon James Glass, Cambridge, GB;

David Vivian Jaggar, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:

ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395376 ;
Abstract

A data processing system having a plurality of registers 10 and an arithmetic logic unit 20, 22, 24 is responsive to program instruction words. At least one program instruction word includes a destination register bit field <dest> specifying a destination register of a result data word and a destination register write disable flag for disabling writing of that result data word to the destination register.


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