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Patent
G - Physics
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354/230.84
G06F 9/38 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1265873
A DATA PROCESSOR CONTROL UNIT HAVING AN INTERRUPT SERVICE USING INSTRUCTION PREFETCH REDIRECTION Abstract A data processor control unit which provides instructions for execution by a data processor and minimizes instruction cycles lost as overhead is provided. A pipelined instruction stream is used in which instruction addresses are selectively coupled from a program counter and a prefetch counter to a program memory which provides actual instructions. The instructions are stored in a prefetch register, decoded and then loaded into an instruction register coupled to the data processor. When an interrupt service request is made by a device peripheral to the processor, the prefetch instruction address flow is immediately redirected and a predetermined number of interrupt instruction words are prefetched by an interrupt address generator before completion of execution of normal program instructions has occurred. Therefore, interrupt instructions are fetched and jammed into a pipelined instruction stream regardless of instruction cycle boundaries. Similarly, prefetch instruction address flow is redirected back to normal instruction words before completion of the decoding and execution of interrupt service instructions so that substantially no instruction execution cycles of the data processor are lost as overhead.
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Gowling Lafleur Henderson Llp
Motorola Inc.
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