The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1998
Michael Mroczek, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Umberto Santoni, Chandler, AZ (US);
Nazar A. Zaidi, San Jose, CA (US);
Mike Morrison, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Only one pipe in superscalar microprocessor contains particular functional logic necessary to process a specific instruction. When the specific instruction appears in an instruction stream, the microprocessor replicates the specific instruction so that there are as many identical instructions in the stream as there are pipes. The identical instructions appear contiguously in the instruction stream. Each identical instruction is processed by a different one of the pipes. The pipe with the particular functional logic performs the necessary operations for the specific instruction while the other pipes treat the instruction as a null operation.