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Patent No.:

US 6292845 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2001

Filed:

Aug. 26, 1998

Processing unit having independent execution units for parallel execution of instructions of different category with instructions having specific bits indicating instruction size and category respectively

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);

Assignee:

Infineon Technologies North America Corp.;

Attorney:

Fish & Richardson P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Thomas Lee

Assistant Examiner:

Tanh Nguyen

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.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Fleck, Rod. (2001). Processing unit having independent execution units for parallel execution of instructions of different category with instructions having specific bits indicating instruction size and category respectively (U.S. Patent No. 6292845). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6292845

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