DE69231011T2 - Cachespeicher zur Verarbeitung von Befehlsdaten und Datenprozessor mit demselben - Google Patents

Cachespeicher zur Verarbeitung von Befehlsdaten und Datenprozessor mit demselben

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DE69231011T2
DE69231011T2 DE69231011T DE69231011T DE69231011T2 DE 69231011 T2 DE69231011 T2 DE 69231011T2 DE 69231011 T DE69231011 T DE 69231011T DE 69231011 T DE69231011 T DE 69231011T DE 69231011 T2 DE69231011 T2 DE 69231011T2
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Taizo Sato
Atsushi Fujihara
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    • 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
    • G06F9/3818—Decoding for concurrent execution
    • G06F9/382—Pipelined decoding, e.g. using predecoding
    • 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
    • G06F9/34—Addressing or accessing the instruction operand or the result ; Formation of operand address; Addressing modes
    • 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
    • G06F9/30145—Instruction analysis, e.g. decoding, instruction word fields
    • G06F9/30149—Instruction analysis, e.g. decoding, instruction word fields of variable length instructions
    • G06F9/30152—Determining start or end of instruction; determining instruction length
    • 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
    • G06F9/3802—Instruction prefetching

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DE69231011T 1991-02-08 1992-02-06 Cachespeicher zur Verarbeitung von Befehlsdaten und Datenprozessor mit demselben Expired - Fee Related DE69231011T2 (de)

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JP3016716A JPH04255995A (ja) 1991-02-08 1991-02-08 命令キャッシュ
JP3019849A JPH04257948A (ja) 1991-02-13 1991-02-13 キャッシュメモリ、該キャッシュメモリを備えたシステムおよび該システムにおける命令デコード方式

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EP (1) EP0498654B1 (de)
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