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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Alain J. Martin, Pasadena, CA (US);
Andrew Lines, Pasadena, CA (US);
Rajit Manohar, Pasadena, CA (US);
Uri Cummings, Pasadena, CA (US);
Mika Nystrom, Pasadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ;
Abstract
An asynchronous processor having pipelined instruction fetching and execution to implement concurrent execution of instructions by two or more execution units. A writeback unit is connected to execution units and memory units to control information updates and to handle precise exception. A pipelined completion mechanism can be implemented to improve the throughput.