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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2009
Edan Almog, Jerusalem, IL;
Nohik Semel, Kfar Saba, IL;
Yigal Bitran, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Nadav Cohen, Lehavim, IL;
Yoel Livne, Ramat Gan, IL;
Eli Zyss, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Edan Almog, Jerusalem, IL;
Nohik Semel, Kfar Saba, IL;
Yigal Bitran, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
Nadav Cohen, Lehavim, IL;
Yoel Livne, Ramat Gan, IL;
Eli Zyss, Ramat Hasharon, IL;
ALTAIR SEMICONDUCTOR LTD., Hod Hasharon, IL;
Abstract
A processor includes one or more processing units, an execution pipeline and control circuitry. The execution pipeline includes at least first and second pipeline stages that are cascaded so that program instructions, specifying operations to be performed by the processing units in successive cycles of the pipeline, are fetched from a memory by the first pipeline stage and conveyed to the second pipeline stage, which causes the processing units to perform the specified operations. The control circuitry is coupled, upon determining that a program instruction that is present in the second pipeline stage in a first cycle of the pipeline is to be executed again in a subsequent cycle of the pipeline, to cause the execution pipeline to reuse the program instruction in one of the pipeline stages without re-fetching the program instruction from the memory.