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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2006
Applicants:
Jonathan Bloomfield, Surrey, GB;
John Robson, Cambridge, GB;
Nick Murphy, Surrey, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
3DLabs Inc., Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An architecture for microprocessors, in which instructions include a type identifier, selects one of several interpretation registers. The interpretation registers hold information for interpreting the opcode of each instruction, so that a stream of compressed instructions (with type identifiers) can be translated into a stream of expanded instructions. Preferably the type identifiers also distinguish sequencer instructions from processing-element instructions, and can even distinguish among different types of sequencer instructions (as well as among different types of processing-element instructions).