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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:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rod G. Fleck, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bruce Holmer, Belmont, CA (US);
Ole H. Møller, Lyngby, DK;
Roger D. Arnold, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Balraj Singh, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ; G06F 9/40 ; G06F 3/00 ; G06F 1/500 ; G06F 1/576 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ; G06F 9/40 ; G06F 3/00 ; G06F 1/500 ; G06F 1/576 ;
Abstract
An instruction fetching unit is described for loading instructions from a memory processed by a data processing device. The instruction code can be of at least two different lengths, and each instruction contains at least a single bit indicating said instruction sizes. An instruction buffer coupled with an instruction size evaluation unit for determining the instruction size upon said at least single bit of said instruction is provided.