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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2004
Applicant:
William V. Miller, Arlington, TX (US);
Inventor:
William V. Miller, Arlington, TX (US);
Assignee:
VIA Technologies, Inc., Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A processor disclosed herein comprises a clock configured to drive clock signals and a processor pipeline having a plurality of stages. The processor includes processor idling circuitry, which is configured within the stages and is responsive to an idle_request signal. A first stage comprises a device for stopping incoming instruction values from being further processed when the idle_request signal is received. Also, at least two of the remaining stages comprise idle_flag logic configured to receive the idle_request signal, the idle_flag logic further configured to transmit an idle_flag through the processor pipeline.