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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1997
Jeffrey Van Myers, Driftwood, TX (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for selecting one of a plurality of banks of registers in a register file of a data processor. The register specifier fields of an instruction are logically combined with respective register bank specifier fields of a control register to access the register file. If register bank specifier fields are provided in the instruction, selection between these bank specifier fields and the bank specifier fields of the control register can be either direct, via a control field in the control register, or indirect, via a control field of the instruction. If the instruction includes an implied register, another register bank specifier field may be provided in the control register for use when the implied register is accessed. The register bank specifier fields, or selected portions thereof, may be made privileged.