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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2000
Applicants:
Rene Vangemert, San Jose, CA (US);
Frank Worrell, San Jose, CA (US);
Gagan V. Gupta, Union City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Rene Vangemert, San Jose, CA (US);
Frank Worrell, San Jose, CA (US);
Gagan V. Gupta, Union City, CA (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F011/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of recovering from loading invalid data into a register within a pipelined processor. The method comprises the steps of (A) setting a register status for the register to an invalid state in response to loading invalid data into the register and (B) stalling the processor in response to an instruction requiring data buffered by the register and the register status being in the invalid state.