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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:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Frank Worrell, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Frank Worrell, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F009/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of conditional branching in a pipelined processor. The method comprising the steps of (A) prefetching a branch target address in response to encountering a branch instruction, in prediction of taking a branch, and (B) evaluating between (i) taking the branch and (ii) not taking the branch substantially contemporaneously with prefetching the branch target address.