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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sanjay Patel, Fremont, CA (US);
Adam Talcott, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajasekhar Cherabuddi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ;
Abstract
An instruction fetch unit for fetching instructions from an instruction cache of a processor. The fetch unit includes a next fetch address mechanism generating predicted next fetch addresses, the next fetch address mechanism generating a next fetch address for a fetch bundle over at least two cycles of the processor. The next fetch address mechanism determines the next fetch address based on whether a control transfer instruction from an intermediate set of fetched instructions is taken.