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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 24, 1998
David R. Matt, Missouri City, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit (,) includes a processor (,) having an instruction execution pipeline (,). The pipeline has a plurality of successive stages (,) which correspond to respective successive phases of instruction execution. Instructions being executed move successively through the stages (,). A flattener section (,) is provided in the integrated circuit (,), and holds the state of certain pipeline signals until subsequent points in time. This permits various signals generated at different points in time during execution of an instruction to all be simultaneously available at a later point in time. A selector section (,) of the integrated circuit (,) selects either the output of the flattener section (,) or certain pipeline signals to be exported off the integrated circuit.