Pipelined computer

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1987-07-13

1989-07-11

Harkcom, Gary V.

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G06F 928, G06F 938

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048477532

ABSTRACT:
A pipelined computer includes an instruction cache connected to an instruction prefetch queue for storing a target address and a target instruction, with the address of a branch instruction taken as an index, and a comparator for comparing a predicted target address stored in the instruction cache with a real target address determined upon execution of the branch instruction. When both the target addresses agree in the comparator, the decoding unit and the instruction prefetch queue continue pipeline processing without alteration.

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