Reducing data dependent conflicts by converting single precision

Details Reducing data dependent conflicts by converting single precision Reducing data dependent conflicts by converting single precision

1997-06-25

2000-07-25

Kim, Kenneth S.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing

Dynamic instruction dependency checking, monitoring or...

712217, 712222, 712 23, 708513, G06F 9302

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060947195

ABSTRACT:
In an out-of-order processor having single-precision floating-point registers aliased into double-precision floating-point registers, a single-precision floating-point arithmetic operation having four possible register dependencies is converted into two microinstructions which are processed normally within the processor. The first microinstruction is coded to perform the arithmetic operation specified by the single-precision instruction using the first and second source registers specified and storing the result in a phantom register. The second microinstruction is coded for merging the contents of the phantom register and the destination register specified. Each microinstruction has at most two possible register dependencies, thereby reducing the total number of register dependencies which the processor is required to track.

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