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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
May. 31, 2001
Lonnie C. Goff, Tempe, AZ (US);
Gabriel R. Munguia, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Among the embodiments of the present invention is a processor ( ) having a number of registers in a register bank ( ). The registers include a general purpose register ( ) and a stack pointer register ( ) having a common register name. Processor ( ) includes logic responsive to programming to perform a program instruction that references the common register name. This instruction is performed with general purpose register ( ) under a first condition and with stack pointer register ( ) under a second condition. Accordingly, multiple registers identified by the same name can be selectively accessed based on the establishment of certain conditions.