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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2005
Applicants:
Baruch Solomon, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Ronny Ronen, Haifa, IL;
Doron Orenstien, Haifa, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A power aware front-end unit for a processor may include a UOP cache that disables other circuitry within the front-end unit. In an embodiment, a front-end unit may disable instruction synchronization circuitry, instruction decode circuitry and, optionally, instruction fetch circuitry while instruction look-ups are underway in both a block cache and an instruction cache. If the instruction look-up indicates a miss, the disabled circuitry thereafter may be enabled.