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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2003
Ruban Kanapathippillai, Dublin, CA (US);
Kumar Ganapathy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thu Nguyen, Saratoga, CA (US);
Siva Venkatraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Earle F. Philhower, Iii, Union City, CA (US);
Manoj Mehta, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Kenneth Malich, Norco, CA (US);
Ruban Kanapathippillai, Dublin, CA (US);
Kumar Ganapathy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thu Nguyen, Saratoga, CA (US);
Siva Venkatraman, San Jose, CA (US);
Earle F. Philhower, III, Union City, CA (US);
Manoj Mehta, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Kenneth Malich, Norco, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit comprising a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) controller to execute RISC instructions, one or more digital signal processing (DSP) units to execute DSP instructions, and a unified instruction pipeline coupled to the RISC controller and the one or more DSP units, the unified instruction pipeline to decode and initiate execution of the RISC instructions and the DSP instructions of a unified RISC and DSP instruction set, the unified instruction pipeline to decode and initiate the RISC instructions when the DSP instructions are inactive, and to decode and initiate the DSP instructions when the RISC instructions are inactive.