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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jennifer-Ann M Anderson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey Dean, Menlo Park, CA (US);
James E Hicks, Jr, Newton, MA (US);
Carl A Waldspurger, Atherton, CA (US);
William E Weihl, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
712200 ; 712202 ; 712216 ; 395709 ;
Abstract
In a method for scheduling instructions executed in a computer system including a processor and a memory subsystem, pipeline latencies and resource utilization are measured by sampling hardware while the instructions are executing. The instructions are then scheduled according to the measured latencies and resource utilizations using an instruction scheduler.