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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2006
Applicant:
Hedley Rainnie, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Hedley Rainnie, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A processor includes an instruction fetcher, a decoder, and an instruction processor. The instruction fetcher retrieves encoded machine-language instructions. The encoded machine-language instructions are encoded according to a predetermined key assigned only to the processor. The predetermined key is independent of opcodes of the processor. The decoder decodes each of the encoded machine-language instructions according to the predetermined key. The instruction processor executes the decoded machine-language instructions.