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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Chih-Jui Peng, San Jose, CA (US);
Lew Chua-Eoan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ; G06F 1/516 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 ; G06F 1/516 ;
Abstract
A processor including a plurality of execution pipeline stages where each stage accepts a plurality of operand inputs and generates a result. A pipefile having at least the same number of entries as the number of execution pipeline stages is included in the processor. A pointer register is associated with each execution pipeline stage. A value is stored in at least one of the pointer registers, the value indicating a particular one of the entries in the pipefile.