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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2005
Andrew Webber, Hertfordshire, GB;
Andrew Webber, Hertfordshire, GB;
Imagination Technologies Limited, Hertfordshire, GB;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for controlling instructions provided by a microprocessor output port to other execution units. A microprocessor pipeline of instructions is provided for each execution unit. These are scheduled via the microprocessor unit for each execution unit, a determination is made as to whether or not the execution unit can receive further instructions. If it cannot, it's associated pipeline is said to be stalled and instructions are deleted from the microprocessor pipeline. Its thread can then be restarted at a later time with the instruction corresponding to the instruction which was unable to execute.