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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1998
Reynold V D'Sa, Portland, OR (US);
Alan B Kyker, Portland, OR (US);
Gad S Sheaffer, Beaverton, OR (US);
Gustavo P Espinosa, Portland, OR (US);
Stavros Kalafatis, Portland, OR (US);
Rebecca E Hebda, Sherwood, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Abstract
An instruction pipeline in a microprocessor is provided. The instruction pipeline includes a plurality of pipeline units, each of the pipeline units processing a plurality of instructions including branch instructions. The instruction pipeline further includes a plurality of storage device which store a respective branch information data. Each of the storage devices are associated with at least one of pipeline units. Each respective branch information data is determined as a function of at least one of the branch instructions processed. Two of the pipeline units include branch prediction circuitry for predicting branch direction as a function of the stored branch information data.