Program counter update mechanism

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1998-02-10

2000-03-07

Eng, David Y.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing

Instruction fetching

G06F 926

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060353864

ABSTRACT:
A processor which includes a fetch program counter circuit and an execute program counter circuit is disclosed. The fetch program counter circuit provides less significant program counter value bits in addition to a fetch program counter value. The execute program counter circuit generates an execute program counter value using the less significant program counter value bits. The execute program counter circuit receives a plurality of less significant program counter bit values and selects a single less significant program counter bit value thus generating execute program counter values in a multiple pipeline processor.

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