GB2230116B - An improvement for pipelined decoding of instructions in a pipelined processor - Google Patents

An improvement for pipelined decoding of instructions in a pipelined processor

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Publication number
GB2230116B
GB2230116B GB9003351A GB9003351A GB2230116B GB 2230116 B GB2230116 B GB 2230116B GB 9003351 A GB9003351 A GB 9003351A GB 9003351 A GB9003351 A GB 9003351A GB 2230116 B GB2230116 B GB 2230116B
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Prior art keywords
pipelined
instructions
improvement
decoding
processor
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Expired - Fee Related
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GB9003351A
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GB9003351D0 (en
GB2230116A (en
Inventor
Beatrice Fu
Patrick P Gelsinger
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Intel Corp
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Intel Corp
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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
    • G06F9/22—Microcontrol or microprogram arrangements
    • G06F9/26—Address formation of the next micro-instruction ; Microprogram storage or retrieval arrangements
    • G06F9/262—Arrangements for next microinstruction selection
    • G06F9/268—Microinstruction selection not based on processing results, e.g. interrupt, patch, first cycle store, diagnostic programs
    • 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
    • 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
    • G06F9/3016—Decoding the operand specifier, e.g. specifier format
    • G06F9/30167—Decoding the operand specifier, e.g. specifier format of immediate specifier, e.g. constants

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Software Systems (AREA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Executing Machine-Instructions (AREA)
  • Advance Control (AREA)
GB9003351A 1989-04-07 1990-02-14 An improvement for pipelined decoding of instructions in a pipelined processor Expired - Fee Related GB2230116B (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

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US33518689A 1989-04-07 1989-04-07

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GB9003351D0 GB9003351D0 (en) 1990-04-11
GB2230116A GB2230116A (en) 1990-10-10
GB2230116B true GB2230116B (en) 1993-02-17

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JP (1) JP2847316B2 (ja)
DE (1) DE4010895C2 (ja)
FR (1) FR2645665B1 (ja)
GB (1) GB2230116B (ja)
HK (1) HK56295A (ja)

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GB2059124A (en) * 1978-01-31 1981-04-15 Intel Corp Data processing system
EP0124402A2 (en) * 1983-03-31 1984-11-07 FAIRCHILD CAMERA & INSTRUMENT CORPORATION Microprocessor
GB2169115A (en) * 1984-12-29 1986-07-02 Sony Corp Method of operating microprocessors
EP0240606A2 (en) * 1986-03-27 1987-10-14 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba Pipe-line processing system and microprocessor using the system

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US6230254B1 (en) 1992-09-29 2001-05-08 Seiko Epson Corporation System and method for handling load and/or store operators in a superscalar microprocessor
US6434693B1 (en) 1992-09-29 2002-08-13 Seiko Epson Corporation System and method for handling load and/or store operations in a superscalar microprocessor

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FR2645665A1 (fr) 1990-10-12
GB9003351D0 (en) 1990-04-11
JPH03201030A (ja) 1991-09-02
FR2645665B1 (fr) 1994-04-15
DE4010895C2 (de) 1998-09-24
HK56295A (en) 1995-04-21
JP2847316B2 (ja) 1999-01-20
DE4010895A1 (de) 1990-10-11
GB2230116A (en) 1990-10-10

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