Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Processing architecture – Superscalar
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-27
2009-06-30
Donaghue, Larry D (Department: 2454)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing
Processing architecture
Superscalar
C712S218000, C712S216000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07555632
ABSTRACT:
The high-performance, RISC core based microprocessor architecture includes an instruction fetch unit for fetching instruction sets from an instruction store and an execution unit that implements the concurrent execution of a plurality of instructions through a parallel array of functional units. The fetch unit generally maintains a predetermined number of instructions in an instruction buffer. The execution unit includes an instruction selection unit, coupled to the instruction buffer, for selecting instructions for execution, and a plurality of functional units for performing instruction specified functional operations. A unified instruction scheduler, within the instruction selection unit, initiates the processing of instructions through the functional units when instructions are determined to be available for execution and for which at least one of the functional units implementing a necessary computational function is available. Unified scheduling is performed across multiple execution data paths, where each execution data path, and corresponding functional units, is generally optimized for the type of computational function that is to be performed on the data: integer, floating point, and boolean. The number, type and computational specifics of the functional units provided in each data path, and as between data paths, are mutually independent.
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Garg Sanjiv
Hagiwara Yasuaki
Lau Te-Li
Lentz Derek J.
Miyayama Yoshiyuki
Donaghue Larry D
Seiko Epson Corporation
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
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