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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2003
Soumya Banerjee, San Jose, CA (US);
John L. Kelley, Madison, WI (US);
Ryan C. Kinter, Los Altos, CA (US);
Soumya Banerjee, San Jose, CA (US);
John L. Kelley, Madison, WI (US);
Ryan C. Kinter, Los Altos, CA (US);
MIPS Technologies, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for recoding one or more instruction sets. An expand instruction and an expandable instruction are read from an instruction cache. A tag compare and way selection unit checks to verify each instruction is a desired instruction. An instruction staging unit dispatches the expand instruction to a first recoder and the expandable instruction to a second recoder of a recoding unit. At least one information bit based on the expand instruction is generated at the first recoder. The second recoder uses the at least one information bit generated at the first recoder to recode the expandable instruction, and the recoded expandable instruction is placed in an instruction buffer.