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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2002
Applicants:
Zeev Sperber, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Ittai Anati, Haifa, IL;
Yuval Bustan, Moshav Mismeret, IL;
Sagi Lahav, Kiryat Motzkin, IL;
Inventors:
Zeev Sperber, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Ittai Anati, Haifa, IL;
Yuval Bustan, Moshav Mismeret, IL;
Sagi Lahav, Kiryat Motzkin, IL;
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In some embodiments of the present invention, one or more elements of a processor core may receive a signal indicating that operands of a micro-instruction are narrow, for example less than or equal to 32 bits. In response to this signal, one or more components of a processor core element that are able to handle more than 32 bits of data (e.g. operands or results) may function as though they handle only 32 bits of data.