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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2000
Alain Benayoun, Cagnes-sur-Mer, FR;
Jean-Francois Le Pennec, Nice, FR;
Claude Pin, Nice, FR;
Patrick Michel, La Gaude, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a hardware device for parallel processing a determined instruction of a set of programmable instructions having a same format with an operand field defining the execution steps of the instruction corresponding to the execution of micro-instructions, comprising decision blocks ( ) being each associated with a specific instruction of the set of programmable instructions, only one decision block being selected by the determined instruction in order to define which are the specific micro-instructions to be processed for executing the determined instruction, activation blocks ( ) respectively associated with the decision blocks for running one or several specific micro-instructions, only the activation block associated with said selected decision block being activated to run the specific micro-instructions, and a micro-instruction selection block ( ) connected to each activation block for selecting the specific micro-instructions to be executed.