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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2010
Alexei Starovoitov, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Greg Watson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alexei Starovoitov, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Greg Watson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed that compiles a sub-expression associated with an inexact pattern contained in a regular expression into a plurality of microprogram instructions that can be stored in contiguous locations of an instruction memory. At least one of the microprogram instructions includes a next instruction address and a fetch length value, where the next instruction address indicates the instruction memory address of the next instruction to be executed and the fetch length value indicates the number of sequentially-executed instructions that are to be fetched from contiguous locations of the instruction memory.