Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Computer power control – Power conservation
Reexamination Certificate
2008-09-30
2008-09-30
Elamin, Abdelmoniem (Department: 2116)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Computer power control
Power conservation
C713S320000, C713S321000, C713S322000, C713S324000, C712S043000, C712S208000, C712S229000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11500456
ABSTRACT:
An objective is to perform a low power operation of a microprocessor on the pipeline stage of an instruction decode and a preceding pipeline stage without the necessity for increasing a circuit size or decoding time. An instruction code of each program for performing an instruction includes a first instruction set, which includes a flag for specifying predicate (301), and one or more second instruction sets including control specification information (302). A low power operation of each control circuit is performed for each instruction according to the instruction execution control function. Thus, without the necessity for increasing a circuit size or decoding time, it is possible to control the pipeline stage of an instruction decode and a preceding pipeline stage, achieving a low power operation of the microprocessor.
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Elamin Abdelmoniem
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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