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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2012
Ben Hertzberg, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nathan Tuck, Corvallis, OR (US);
Ben Hertzberg, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nathan Tuck, Corvallis, OR (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A processing system includes a microprocessor, a hardware decoder arranged within the microprocessor, and a translator operatively coupled to the microprocessor. The hardware decoder is configured to decode instruction code non-native to the microprocessor for execution in the microprocessor. The translator is configured to form a translation of the instruction code in an instruction set native to the microprocessor and to connect a branch instruction in the translation to a chaining stub. The chaining stub is configured to selectively cause additional instruction code at a target address of the branch instruction to be received in the hardware decoder without causing the processing system to search for a translation of additional instruction code at the target address.