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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2006
Alexander V. Veidenbaum, Irvine, CA (US);
Marco Antonio Ramirez Salinas, Barcelona, ES;
Adrian Cristal Kestelman, Barcelona, ES;
Mateo Valero Cortes, Barcelona, ES;
Alexander V. Veidenbaum, Irvine, CA (US);
Marco Antonio Ramirez Salinas, Barcelona, ES;
Adrian Cristal Kestelman, Barcelona, ES;
Mateo Valero Cortes, Barcelona, ES;
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for improving the operation of an out-of order computer processor by utilizing and managing instruction wakeup using pointers with an instruction queue payload random-access memory, a mapping table, and a multiple wake-up table. Instructions allocated to the instruction queue are identified by association with a physical destination register used to index in the mapping table to provide dependent instruction information for instruction wakeup for scalable instruction queue design, reduced power consumption, and fast branch mis-prediction recovery, without the use of content-addressable memory cells.