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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2007
Filed:
May. 23, 2005
Applicants:
Juan G. Revilla, Austin, TX (US);
Ravi P. Singh, Austin, TX (US);
Charles P. Roth, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A programmable processor is adapted to detect exception conditions associated with one or more instructions before the instructions are executed. The detected exception conditions may be stored with the one or more instructions in a prefetch unit. Then, the exception conditions may be issued in parallel with the issuance of the instructions.