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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1999
Nicholas G. Samra, Plano, TX (US);
VIA-Cyrix, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
For use in a processor having a pipeline of insufficient width to convey all operands of a given multiple-operand instruction concurrently, a system for, and method of, processing the multiple-operand instruction. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) node creation circuitry that creates at least first and second nodes for the multiple-operand instruction, the first node being empty and containing at least one of the operands and (2) node transmission circuitry, coupled to the node creation circuitry, that transmits the first and second nodes sequentially through the pipeline. All the operands are subsequently concurrently available within an execution stage of the pipeline for execution of the multiple-operand instruction.