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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2003
Ramanathan Sethuraman, Eindhoven, NL;
Balakrishnan Srinivasan, Eindhoven, NL;
Carlos Antonio Alba Pinto, Eindhoven, NL;
Harm Johannes Antonius Maria Peters, Eindhoven, NL;
Rafael Peset Llopis, Eindhoven, NL;
Ramanathan Sethuraman, Eindhoven, NL;
Balakrishnan Srinivasan, Eindhoven, NL;
Carlos Antonio Alba Pinto, Eindhoven, NL;
Harm Johannes Antonius Maria Peters, Eindhoven, NL;
Rafael Peset Llopis, Eindhoven, NL;
Nytell Software LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A data processing apparatus has an instruction memory system arranged to output an instruction word addressed by an instruction address. An instruction execution unit, processes a plurality of instructions from the instruction word in parallel. A detection unit, detects in which of a plurality of ranges the instruction address lies. The detection unit is coupled to the instruction execution unit and/or the instruction memory system, to control a way in which the instruction execution unit parallelizes processing of the instructions from the instruction word, dependent on a detected range. In an embodiment the instruction execution unit and/or the instruction memory system adjusts a width of the instruction word that determines a number of instructions from the instruction word that is processed in parallel, dependent on the detected range.