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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:
Mar. 01, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2001
Applicants:
Lance E. Hacking, Portland, OR (US);
Debbie Marr, Portland, OR (US);
Inventors:
Lance E. Hacking, Portland, OR (US);
Debbie Marr, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F009/312 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for synchronizing load operations. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a decode circuit to decode a load fence instruction. An execution unit executes the load fence instruction after it as been decoded by the decode circuit. Furthermore, a control register is included to enable pre-serialization and post-serialization of operations appearing before and after the load fence instruction in program order, respectively.