The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ; G06F 9/44 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 ; G06F 9/44 ;
Abstract
In an information processing apparatus which executes micro programs having branch instructions, two micro instructions are read at once, each of which instructions comprises either a field for specifying the branch target address in the following Nth (N≧2) cycle from the reading cycle of the micro instruction, or a field for determining the termination of micro program in the following Nth (N≧2) cycle, and a control field for controlling the execution in the next cycle.