Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Dynamic instruction dependency checking – monitoring or... – Scoreboarding – reservation station – or aliasing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-30
2006-05-30
Coleman, Eric (Department: 2183)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing
Dynamic instruction dependency checking, monitoring or...
Scoreboarding, reservation station, or aliasing
Reexamination Certificate
active
07055020
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus is provided for restoring a free physical register list to its previous state without having to physically restore any data. The method and semiconductor device utilizes sets of pointers to manage physical register pointers in the physical register list. The physical register list is able to independently track physical registers for multiple threads of a multithreading microprocessor.
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Eisenberg Jason
Gold Spencer M.
Staraitis Julie M.
Coleman Eric
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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