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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2011
Glen Andrew Harris, Austin, TX (US);
James Nolan Hardage, Austin, TX (US);
Mark Carpenter Glass, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
Glen Andrew Harris, Austin, TX (US);
James Nolan Hardage, Austin, TX (US);
Mark Carpenter Glass, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A processor core supports execution of program instruction from both a first instruction set and a second instruction set. An architectural register filecontaining architectural registers is shared by the two instruction sets. The two instruction sets employ logical register specifiers which for at least some values of those logical registers specifiers correspond to different architectural registers within the architectural register file. A first decoderfor the first instruction set and a second decoderfor the second instruction set serve to decode the logical register specifiers to a common register addressing format. This common register addressing format is used to supply register specifiers to renaming circuitryfor supporting register renaming in conjunction with a physical register fileand an architectural register file