AU5686599A - Processing element with special application for branch functions - Google Patents

Processing element with special application for branch functions

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Publication number
AU5686599A
AU5686599A AU56865/99A AU5686599A AU5686599A AU 5686599 A AU5686599 A AU 5686599A AU 56865/99 A AU56865/99 A AU 56865/99A AU 5686599 A AU5686599 A AU 5686599A AU 5686599 A AU5686599 A AU 5686599A
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Australia
Prior art keywords
processing element
special application
branch functions
branch
functions
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Abandoned
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AU56865/99A
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Inventor
Rajit Manohar
Alain Martin
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California Institute of Technology CalTech
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California Institute of Technology CalTech
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Publication of AU5686599A publication Critical patent/AU5686599A/en
Abandoned legal-status Critical Current

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    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
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    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3836—Instruction issuing, e.g. dynamic instruction scheduling or out of order instruction execution
    • G06F9/3851—Instruction issuing, e.g. dynamic instruction scheduling or out of order instruction execution from multiple instruction streams, e.g. multistreaming
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    • G06F8/445—Exploiting fine grain parallelism, i.e. parallelism at instruction level
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    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3802—Instruction prefetching
    • G06F9/3804—Instruction prefetching for branches, e.g. hedging, branch folding
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    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3802—Instruction prefetching
    • G06F9/3808—Instruction prefetching for instruction reuse, e.g. trace cache, branch target cache
    • G06F9/381—Loop buffering
    • G—PHYSICS
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    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3824—Operand accessing
    • G06F9/3826—Bypassing or forwarding of data results, e.g. locally between pipeline stages or within a pipeline stage
    • G06F9/3828—Bypassing or forwarding of data results, e.g. locally between pipeline stages or within a pipeline stage with global bypass, e.g. between pipelines, between clusters
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3824—Operand accessing
    • G06F9/383—Operand prefetching
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3836—Instruction issuing, e.g. dynamic instruction scheduling or out of order instruction execution
    • G06F9/3842—Speculative instruction execution
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/30—Arrangements for executing machine instructions, e.g. instruction decode
    • G06F9/38—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead
    • G06F9/3885—Concurrent instruction execution, e.g. pipeline or look ahead using a plurality of independent parallel functional units

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Software Systems (AREA)
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AU56865/99A 1998-08-21 1999-08-20 Processing element with special application for branch functions Abandoned AU5686599A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (3)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US9751598P 1998-08-21 1998-08-21
US60097515 1998-08-21
PCT/US1999/019197 WO2000011547A1 (fr) 1998-08-21 1999-08-20 Element de traitement s'appliquant plus particulierement a des fonctions de branchement

Publications (1)

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AU5686599A true AU5686599A (en) 2000-03-14

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AU56865/99A Abandoned AU5686599A (en) 1998-08-21 1999-08-20 Processing element with special application for branch functions

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EP (1) EP1105793A4 (fr)
AU (1) AU5686599A (fr)
WO (1) WO2000011547A1 (fr)

Family Cites Families (7)

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US5539911A (en) * 1991-07-08 1996-07-23 Seiko Epson Corporation High-performance, superscalar-based computer system with out-of-order instruction execution
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US5485629A (en) * 1993-01-22 1996-01-16 Intel Corporation Method and apparatus for executing control flow instructions in a control flow pipeline in parallel with arithmetic instructions being executed in arithmetic pipelines
DE69428504T2 (de) * 1993-11-30 2002-05-16 Texas Instruments Inc Drei-Eingänge-Arithmetik-Logik-Einheit mit Trommel-Rotationsschaltung
US5781752A (en) * 1996-12-26 1998-07-14 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Table based data speculation circuit for parallel processing computer

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EP1105793A1 (fr) 2001-06-13
WO2000011547A1 (fr) 2000-03-02
EP1105793A4 (fr) 2007-07-25
WO2000011547A9 (fr) 2000-08-10

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MK6 Application lapsed section 142(2)(f)/reg. 8.3(3) - pct applic. not entering national phase