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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:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vladimir Pentovski, Folsom, CA (US);
Gerald Bennett, Folsom, CA (US);
Stephen A. Fischer, Shingle Springs, CA (US);
Eric Heit, Folsom, CA (US);
Glenn J. Hinton, Portland, OR (US);
Patrice L. Roussel, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ;
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for matching data types of operands in an instruction. A type code of an operand used by the instruction is determined. An attribute value of a storage element which corresponds to the operand is read from a speculative array. This attribute value is then compared with the type code.