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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
May. 02, 2000
Applicants:
Andrew Cofler, Voreppe, FR;
Bruno Fel, Voreppe, FR;
Laurent Ducousso, Sain Nazaire les Eymes, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics S.A., Gentilly, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Instructions in a computer system are executed in a plurality of parallel execution pipelines, a horizontal dependency check is carried out between instructions supplied to the parallel pipelines and in response to detecting horizontal dependency a control signal of a first or second type is generated depending on whether the dependency can be resolved by activating a by-pass or whether a temporary stall is required in one of the pipelines.