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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2002
Menno M. Lindwer, Eindhoven, NL;
Menno M. Lindwer, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A processing device comprises an instruction memoryfor storing virtual machine instructions, such as Java byte codes. A processorof the processing device comprises a predetermined microcontroller corefor executing native instructions from a predetermined set of microcontroller specific instructions. The native instructions differ from the virtual machine instructions. The processoris of a type which may request re-feeding of a plurality of native instructions. For instance, the processormay have a pipeline and/or instruction cache which after an interrupt need to be re-filled. The processing device comprises a pre-processorwith a converterfor converting at least one virtual machine instruction, fetched from the instruction memory, into at least one native instruction. Feeding meansof the pre-processorfeed native instructions to the microcontroller coreand re-feed native instructions in response to the processor requesting re-feeding of a number of native instructions.