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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2000
Kevin David Safford, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Patrick Knebel, Ft Collins, CO (US);
Joel D Lamb, Ft Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for determining register dependency in multiple architecture system. The system includes a microprocessor emulating an emulated instruction set using a native instruction set where the microprocessor contains at least one register. An execution engine provides the native instructions where each native instruction contains at least one register identifier. Flags are provided to each native instruction where each flag indicates whether a register identifier is valid. A bundler checks for dependency among the valid register identifiers in the native instructions.