Method and system to improve usage of an instruction window...

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2005-07-12

2005-07-12

Follansbee, John (Department: 2154)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra

Interprogram communication using shared memory

Reexamination Certificate

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06918119

ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a method and system for determining the status of each entry in an instruction window buffer in multi-processor, parallel processing environments. A combinatorial circuit, which automatically generates active instruction window status information, is added to the buffer itself. This status information is used by a plurality of processes like renaming registers and issuing and committing instructions as an output associated with a respective buffer entry.

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