Branch control memory

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2007-01-02

2007-01-02

Treat, William M. (Department: 2181)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing

Processing control

Branching

C712S238000, C712S239000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10869760

ABSTRACT:
A branch control memory store branch instructions which are adapted for optimizing performance of programs run on electronic processors. Flexible instruction parameter fields permit a variety of new branch control and branch instruction implementations best suited for a particular computing environment. These instructions also have separate prediction bits, which are used to optimize loading of target instruction buffers in advance of program execution, so that a pipeline within the processor achieves superior performance during actual program execution.

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