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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:
Jul. 01, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2004
Applicants:
Gary Hammond, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Carl Scafidi, Fort Collins, CO (US);
John Crawford, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gary Hammond, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Carl Scafidi, Fort Collins, CO (US);
John Crawford, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing a source operand for an instruction to be executed in a processor. Some embodiments may include a register file unit that has registers and a scheduler to schedule instructions. In some embodiments, the scheduler is to asynchronously receive an instruction and a source operand for that instruction, the source operand being received from the register file unit.