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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1996
Michael J Morrison, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Andrew Paul Kelm, Fremont, CA (US);
Nazar A Zaidi, San Jose, CA (US);
Bharat N Zaveri, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A microarchitecture that accommodates divergent instruction sets having different data sizes and addressing modes utilizes a mechanism for translating a generic flow for an instruction into specific operations at run-time. These generic flows use a special class of micro-ops (uops), called 'super-uops' (or 'Suops)' which are translated into a variable number of regular (i.e., simple) uops. A first-level decoder translates macroinstructions into either simple micro-ops or one or more super-uops which represent one or more sequences of one or more simple uops. A second-level decoder is responsible for converting the super-uops into the appropriate micro-op sequence based upon a set of arguments associated with the super-uop and attributes of the macroinstruction.