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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter Cumming, La Gaude, FR;
Richard Grisenthwaite, Fife, GB;
Assignee:
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Ltd., Almondsbury Bristol, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
712240 ; 712238 ; 712239 ;
Abstract
A computer instruction supply system has store and fetch circuitry for obtaining a sequence of instructions, test circuitry for locating the first instruction in the sequence to be enabled, and for testing separately successive instructions in the sequence to locate any branch instruction which is predicted to be taken and control circuitry to disregard target addresses of branch instructions in the sequence prior to the first instruction to be executed.