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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2000
Alan S Krech, Jr., Fort Collins, CO (US);
Stephen D Jordan, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Alan S Krech, Jr., Fort Collins, CO (US);
Stephen D Jordan, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus to perform no-latency conditional branching has a sequencer for executing program instructions including one or more conditional branch instructions. The conditional branch instruction is a binary word specifying a branch condition address and a conditional instruction. The branch unit has a programmable flag selection memory and a plurality of first flag selectors and determines in hardware whether to branch according to the conditional instruction. Each first flag selector accepts a plurality of available flags and selects a flag based upon contents in the flag selection memory. A second flag selector accepts the flags from the first flag selectors and selects one of the flags to present as a branch flag based upon the branch condition address. The branch flag indicates whether to branch to the destination address.