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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Milton Lie, McKinney, TX (US);
Assignee:
VIA-Cyrix, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 ;
Abstract
A system and method of expediting bit scan instructions in a microprocessor is disclosed which employs an execution unit having zero detectors organized along predetermined boundaries for detecting in parallel, the number of leading or trailing zeros in a source operand and for writing a destination index to indicate the first non-zero bit position.