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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1999
Michael P Corwin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tse-Yu Yeh, Milpitas, CA (US);
Mircea Poplingher, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Carl C Scafidi, Hollister, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A processor architecture with an instruction set having a predict instruction, the predict instruction providing static prediction information and a statically predicted target address to the processor for a branch instruction. The processor decodes a predict instruction to obtain an associated pair of addresses comprising a predicted target address and a referenced instruction address, and fetches a predicted target instruction having an instruction address matching the predicted target address when a fetched and decoded branch instruction has an instruction address matching the referenced instruction address.