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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1997
Ran Ginosar, Nofit, IL;
Rakefet Kol, Haifa, IL;
Kenneth Scott Stevens, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Peter A Beerel, Long Beach, CA (US);
Kenneth Yi Yun, San Diego, CA (US);
Christopher John Myers, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Shai Rotem, Beaverton, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An instruction execution pipeline in a computer system having variable-length instructions uses branch prediction to perform self-timed marking of instructions prior to decoding. Branch handling logic is provided in an instruction marking circuit to directly mark a target instruction of a predicted branch as the next instruction to be decoded. Additionally, a branch target FIFO may be used to store information about the location of the target instruction in the instruction stream.