Central processing unit for a digital computer

Details Central processing unit for a digital computer Central processing unit for a digital computer

1988-06-16

1989-03-14

Harkcom, Gary V.

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G06F 922, G06F 930, G06F 1300

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ABSTRACT:
A central processing unit for a digital computer. In one embodiment, the central processing unit comprises a plurality of pointer registers that may be used during instruction execution to directly address other registers. In a second embodiment, the central processing unit comprises a size register that is loaded during the decode of an operation code with a size code indicating the data path width for that operation code. During instruction execution, the size code may be used at various times to determine data path width.

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