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Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 08, 2010
Applicants:

Suresh K. Venkumahanti, Austin, TX (US);

Lucian Codrescu, Austin, TX (US);

Stephen R. Shannon, Austin, TX (US);

Lin Wang, Austin, TX (US);

Phillip M. Jones, Austin, TX (US);

Daisy T. Palal, Las Vegas, NV (US);

Jiajin Tu, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Suresh K. Venkumahanti, Austin, TX (US);

Lucian Codrescu, Austin, TX (US);

Stephen R. Shannon, Austin, TX (US);

Lin Wang, Austin, TX (US);

Phillip M. Jones, Austin, TX (US);

Daisy T. Palal, Las Vegas, NV (US);

Jiajin Tu, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3844 (2013.01);
Abstract

Each branch instruction having branch prediction support has branch prediction bits in architecture specified bit positions in the branch instruction. An instruction cache supports modifying the branch instructions with updated branch prediction bits that are dynamically determined when the branch instruction executes.


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