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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2005
Eli Aloni, Zur Yigal, IL;
Gilad Ayalon, Hod Hasharon, IL;
Oren David, Kfar Sava, IL;
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A reduced instruction set computer (RISC) includes at least one arithmetic logic units (ALUs), which are arranged to evaluate logical conditions. A processing pipeline is arranged to solve a decision problem that is representable as a decision tree including at least three nodes by processing a sequence of pipelined instructions that traverse the decision tree. At least some of the pipelined instructions instruct the one or more ALUs to evaluate respective logical conditions, such that the pipeline flushes the instructions from the pipeline no more than once in the course of processing the sequence regardless of whether the logical conditions evaluate to true or false.