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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2014
Applicant:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
James Loran Ball, Thornhill, CA;
Assignee:
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 9/34 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30145 (2013.01); G06F 9/3016 (2013.01); G06F 9/30054 (2013.01); G06F 9/30149 (2013.01); G06F 9/30167 (2013.01); G06F 9/322 (2013.01); G06F 9/34 (2013.01); G06F 9/3816 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are provided for optimizing a processor core. Common processor subcircuitry is used to perform calculations for various types of instructions, including branch and non-branch instructions. Increasing the commonality of calculations across different instruction types allows branch instructions to jump to byte aligned memory address even if supported instructions are multi-byte or word aligned.