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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 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 circuit includes a decoder circuit, a basic block builder circuit, a multi-block builder circuit, first and second predictor circuits, and a sequencer circuit, where the sequencer circuit is operable, in a first environment, to cause the first predictor circuit to generate a prediction for a particular conditional branch op concurrently with the second predictor circuit generating a prediction for another particular conditional branch op, where the sequencer circuit is also operable, in a second environment, to cause the first predictor circuit to generate a prediction for the particular conditional branch op sequentially with the second predictor circuit generating a prediction for the another particular conditional branch operation.