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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:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 ;
Abstract
According to the present invention, instruction decoding can be separated into two stages. In a first instruction decoding stage, multiple instructions are decoded in a single machine cycle. Also, in the first instruction decoding stage, when a branch instruction is decoded a memory is requested to read a branch destination instruction for the branch instruction. The instructions decoded in the first instruction decoding stage is stored temporarily in instruction flow registers. In a second instruction decoding stage, instructions read sequentially from the instruction flow registers are decoded.