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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2009
Chad E. Fogg, Seattle, WA (US);
Nital P. Patwa, San Jose, CA (US);
Parin B. Dalal, Milpitas, CA (US);
Stephen C. Purcell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Korbin Van Dyke, Sunol, CA (US);
Steve C. Hale, San Jose, CA (US);
Chad E. Fogg, Seattle, WA (US);
Nital P. Patwa, San Jose, CA (US);
Parin B. Dalal, Milpitas, CA (US);
Stephen C. Purcell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Korbin Van Dyke, Sunol, CA (US);
Steve C. Hale, San Jose, CA (US);
ATI Technologies ULC, Markham, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
An apparatus includes at least one general purpose register and at least one special purpose register and an execution unit that executes at least two instructions in parallel, to decode variable length codes, wherein each of the instructions share use of the at least one general purpose register and the at least one special purpose register. In one example, a processor stores variable length code information among a plurality of general purpose registers and generates decoded variable length code information by decoding the at least one variable length code. The processor also stores the decoded variable length code information among the plurality of general purpose registers.