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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 26, 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
Hardware device for parallel processing a determined instruction of a set of instructions having a same format defining operand fields and other data fields, the execution of this determined instruction being represented as an algorithm comprising a plurality of processes, the processing of which depending on decisions. Such a device comprises means ( ) for activating the processing of one or several processes ( ) determined by the operand fields of the instruction, decision macroblocks ( ) each being associated with a specific instruction of the set of instructions, only one decision marcoblock being selected by the determined instruction in order to determine which are the process(es) to be activated for executing the determined instruction.