Method and apparatus for identifying instruction boundaries

Details Method and apparatus for identifying instruction boundaries Method and apparatus for identifying instruction boundaries

1997-12-05

2000-02-29

Follansbee, John A.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing

Instruction decoding

Decoding instruction to accommodate variable length...

G06F 938

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060322500

ABSTRACT:
A method and device for identifying boundaries between variable length instructions in a packet of instruction bytes includes examining each instruction byte in a first portion of the packet, marking each instruction byte in the first portion as one of an end byte and a non-end byte in response to the examining act, and marking each instruction byte in a second portion of the packet as a predetermined one of an end byte and a non-end byte.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5870599 (1999-02-01), Hinton et al.

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