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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 22, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Joshua W. Bowman, Austin, TX (US);

Sundeep Chadha, Austin, TX (US);

Michael J. Genden, Austin, TX (US);

Dhivya Jeganathan, Austin, TX (US);

Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);

David R. Terry, Austin, TX (US);

Eula A. Tolentino, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/38 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/3851 (2013.01); G06F 9/3001 (2013.01); G06F 9/30043 (2013.01); G06F 9/30145 (2013.01); G06F 9/3832 (2013.01); G06F 9/3836 (2013.01); G06F 13/4068 (2013.01);
Abstract

Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes a plurality of execution slices and a plurality of load/store slices coupled via a results bus includes: retrieving, from the results bus into an entry of a register file of an execution slice, speculative result data of a load instruction generated by a load/store slice; and determining, from the load/store slice after expiration of a predetermined period of time, whether the result data is valid.


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