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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vijay K. Mehra, Freemont, CA (US);
Gerrit Ary Slavenburg, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Philips Electronics North America Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/204 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/204 ;
Abstract
A multiport register file includes a first file unit having registers of a first width and a second file unite having registers of a second width. The second width being less than the first width. The first file unit accommodates data destined to be operands for functional units of a VLIW processor, or result data from those functional units. The second file unit accommodates guard bits for conditioning operation of those functional units.