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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2007
Richard Win Thaik, San Jose, CA (US);
John Gregory Favor, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Joseph Byron Rowlands, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Leonard Eric Shar, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Richard Win Thaik, San Jose, CA (US);
John Gregory Favor, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Joseph Byron Rowlands, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Leonard Eric Shar, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
An instruction processing unit includes a trace builder circuit operable to (i) receive at least a portion of a first type of sequence of operations and to generate, based thereon, a second type of sequence of operations, where the portion includes at most one control transfer instruction that, when present, ends the portion, (ii) receive sets of at least two sequences of operations and to generate, based thereon, a plurality of third type of sequences of operations, where a sequence of operations of the third type includes one or more interior control transfer instructions and is generated from the sequence of operations of the second type and another sequence of operations of the third type, and (iii) retrieve the sequence of operations of the second type and the another sequence of operations of the third type from a cache circuit.