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Electrical Computers And Digital Processing Systems: Processing Architectures And Instruction Processing (e.g., Processors) > Instruction Alignment

Instruction Alignment

Instruction Alignment patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

07/13/06 - 20060155961 - Apparatus and method for reformatting instructions before reaching a dispatch point in a superscalar processor
Method and apparatus for reformatting instructions in a pipelined processor. An instruction register holds a plurality of instructions received from a cache memory external to the processor. A predecoder predecodes each of the instructions and determines from an instruction operation field where the instruction fields should be placed. A multiplexer ...

07/06/06 - 20060149928 - Aligning instructions using a variable width instruction alignment engine
In one embodiment, a digital signal processor includes look ahead logic to decrease the number of bubbles inserted in the processing pipeline. The processor receives data containing instructions in a plurality of buffers and decodes the size of a first instruction. The beginning of a second instruction is determined based ...

07/07/05 - 20050149696 - Method and apparatus to control steering of instruction streams
Rather than steering one macroinstruction at a time to decode logic in a processor, multiple macroinstructions may be steered at any given time. In one embodiment, a pointer calculation unit generates a pointer that assists in determining a stream of one or more macroinstructions that may be steered to decode ...



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