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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
May. 29, 2014
Mill Computing, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Roger Rawson Godard, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Arthur David Kahlich, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Arthur Yost, Los Altos, CA (US);
MILL COMPUTING, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer processor including an instruction buffer configured to store at least one variable-length instruction having a bit bundle bounded by a head end and a tail end with a plurality of slots each defining a corresponding operation, wherein the plurality of slots and corresponding operations are logically partitioned into a plurality of distinct blocks with a first group of blocks extending from the head end of the bit bundle toward the tail end of the bit bundle and a second group of blocks extending from the tail end of the bit bundle toward the head end of the bit bundle, wherein the second group of blocks includes a tail end block disposed adjacent the tail end of the bit bundle. A decode stage is operably coupled to the instruction buffer and configured to process a given variable-length instruction stored by the instruction buffer by decoding at least one operation of a particular block belonging to the first group of blocks in parallel with decoding at least one operation of the tail end block. Additional aspects are described and claimed.