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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
W. Patrick Hays, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
MIPS Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/32 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/32 ;
Abstract
Systems and methods for extending register addresses in compressed instruction sets are capable of executing extended register instructions that supplement the bits needed to address registers. The extended register instruction precedes corresponding standard instruction, and register the bits from the extend instruction are combined with register bits from the standard instruction to obtain a longer register address.