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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2002
Applicant:
Charles F. Shelor, Arlington, TX (US);
Inventor:
Charles F. Shelor, Arlington, TX (US);
Assignee:
Via-Cyrix, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for handling a status change in a pipeline microprocessor. The pipeline microprocessor determines, at the decode unit, if an instruction is a status instruction. If the instruction is determined to be a status instruction, the decode unit delays the start of the following instruction a sufficient number of clock cycles to allow the status change to propagate through the system pipeline.