Microprocessor with speculative instruction pipelining storing a

Details Microprocessor with speculative instruction pipelining storing a Microprocessor with speculative instruction pipelining storing a

1996-10-30

1998-12-15

Ellis, Richard L.

395582, G06F 938

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058505431

ABSTRACT:
A microprocessor of the superscalar pipelined type, having speculative execution capability, is disclosed. Speculative execution is under the control of a fetch unit having a branch target buffer and a return address stack, each having multiple entries. Each entry includes an address value corresponding to the destination of a branching instruction, and an associated register value, such as a stack pointer. Upon the execution of a subroutine call, the return address and current stack pointer value are stored in the return address stack, to allow for fetching and speculative execution of the sequential instructions following the call in the calling program. Any branching instruction, such as the call, return, or conditional branch, will have an entry included in the branch target buffer; upon fetch of the branch on later passes, speculative execution from the target address can begin using the stack pointer value stored speculatively in the branch target buffer in association with the target address.

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