DE69811474D1 - Rechnerarchitektur zur aufschiebung von exceptions statischer spekulativer befehle - Google Patents

Rechnerarchitektur zur aufschiebung von exceptions statischer spekulativer befehle

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DE69811474D1
DE69811474D1 DE69811474T DE69811474T DE69811474D1 DE 69811474 D1 DE69811474 D1 DE 69811474D1 DE 69811474 T DE69811474 T DE 69811474T DE 69811474 T DE69811474 T DE 69811474T DE 69811474 D1 DE69811474 D1 DE 69811474D1
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K Ross
D Mills
O Hays
G Burger
C Morris
L Thompson
Rajiv Gupta
M Freudenberger
Gary Hammond
M Kling
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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
    • G06F9/3861—Recovery, e.g. branch miss-prediction, exception handling
    • G06F9/3865—Recovery, e.g. branch miss-prediction, exception handling using deferred exception handling, e.g. exception flags
    • 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

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DE69811474T 1997-10-13 1998-10-09 Rechnerarchitektur zur aufschiebung von exceptions statischer spekulativer befehle Expired - Fee Related DE69811474T2 (de)

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US08/949,295 US5915117A (en) 1997-10-13 1997-10-13 Computer architecture for the deferral of exceptions on speculative instructions
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PCT/US1998/021454 WO1999019794A1 (en) 1997-10-13 1998-10-09 Computer architecture for the deferral of exceptions on speculative instructions

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AT (1) ATE232998T1 (de)
AU (1) AU758574B2 (de)
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