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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2000
Ravi P. Singh, Austin, TX (US);
Charles P. Roth, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory A. Overkamp, Austin, TX (US);
Ravi P. Singh, Austin, TX (US);
Charles P. Roth, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory A. Overkamp, Austin, TX (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a programmable processor is adapted to include loop hardware to increase processing speed without significantly increasing power consumption. During a first pass through a loop, a first subset of a sequence of instructions may be loaded into the loop hardware. Then, during subsequent passes through the loop the first subset may be issued from the loop hardware while a second subset is retrieved from a memory device. In this manner, the second subset may be issued with no additional penalty after the first subset has been issued.