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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2000
Applicants:
Gregory A. Overkamp, Austin, TX (US);
Charles P. Roth, Austin, TX (US);
Ravi P. Singh, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Gregory A. Overkamp, Austin, TX (US);
Charles P. Roth, Austin, TX (US);
Ravi P. Singh, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one embodiment, a pipelined processor is described that includes an execution pipeline having a plurality of stages and a multi-cycle instruction (MCI) controller adapted to assert a stall signal to stall the multi-cycle instruction within one of the stages of the execution pipeline. The MCI controller is adapted to issue a plurality of instructions to subsequent stages in the pipeline while the multi-cycle instruction is stalled.