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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2010
James Nolan Hardage, Austin, TX (US);
Glen Andrew Harris, Austin, TX (US);
Mark Carpenter Glass, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
James Nolan Hardage, Austin, TX (US);
Glen Andrew Harris, Austin, TX (US);
Mark Carpenter Glass, Dripping Springs, TX (US);
ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A loop buffer is provided with a main storeand an auxiliary store. The main storestores micro-operation instructions. The auxiliary storehas fewer entries than the main storeand stores target addresses for predicted taken branch instructions stored within the main store. Read control circuitry serves to control reading from the main store and from an auxiliary store such that target addresses are read from the auxiliary store in association with the predicted taken branch instructions read from the main store.