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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. 27, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Linda L. Hurd, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
A method of optimizing assembly code of a VLIW processor (,) or other processor that uses multiple-instruction words (,), each of which comprise instructions to be executed on different functional units (,and,) of the processor (,). The instruction words (,) are modified in accordance with one or more code optimization techniques (FIG.,). Typically, the modifications tend to result in fewer cycle-to-cycle bit changes in the machine code, which results in reduced power consumption.