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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1998
Menno M. Lindwer, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A processing device is disclosed that includes an instruction memory for storing virtual machine instructions, such as Java byte codes. A processor of the processing device includes a predetermined microcontroller core for executing native instructions from a predetermined set of microcontroller specific instructions. The native instructions differ from the virtual machine instructions. The processor may request re-feeding of a plurality of native instructions. For instance, the processor may have a pipeline and/or instruction cache which after an interrupt needs to be re-filled. The processing device includes a pre-processor with a converter for converting at least one virtual machine instruction, fetched from the instruction memory, into at least one native instruction. A feeding means of the pre-processor feeds native instructions to the microcontroller core and re-feeds native instructions in response to the processor requesting re-feeding of a number of native instructions.