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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 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
A self-timed instruction marking circuit includes a long instruction processing system to divide long instruction processing between two columns of the instruction marking circuit. Length decoders are interconnected across columns to signal the presence and length of long instructions. Self-timed marking can continue without alteration. The number of connections required by the instruction marking circuit are reduced. The marking process can be optimized to efficiently process all instructions by setting the definition of a long instruction such that commonly executed instructions are not included.