G - Physics – 06 – F
Patent
G - Physics
06
F
354/230.72
G06F 9/38 (2006.01) G06F 9/30 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2009163
PIPELINE PROCESSING OF REGISTER AND REGISTER MODIFYING SPECIFIERS WITHIN THE SAME INSTRUCTION ABSTRACT In a pipeline processor, simultaneous decoding of multiple specifiers in a variable-length instruction causes a peculiar problem of an intra-instruction read conflict that occurs whenever an instruction includes an autoincrement or an autodecrement specifier which references either directly or indirectly a register specified by a previously occurring specifier for the current instruction. To avoid stalls during the preprocessing of instructions by the instruction unit, register pointers rather than register data are usually passed to the execution unit because register data is not always available at the time of instruction decoding. If an intra-instruction read conflict exists, however, the operand value specified by the conflicting register specifier is the initial value of the register being incremented or decremented, and this initial value will have been changed by the time that the execution unit executes the instruction. Preferably, the proper initial value is obtained prior to the incrementing or decrementing of the conflicting register by putting the instruction decoder into a special IRC mode in which only one specifier is decoded per cycle, and if a specifier being decoded is a register specifier, the content of the specified register is transmitted to the execution unit. Circuitry for detecting an intra-instruction read conflict is disclosed as well as an efficient method for handling interrupts, exceptions and flushes that may occur during the processing of an instruction having an intra-instruction read conflict. PD88-0256 U.S.: DIGM:010 FOREIGN: DIGM:041
Firstenberg Mark A.
Fite David B.
Herman Lawrence O.
Murray John E.
Salett Ronald M.
Digital Equipment Corporation
Firstenberg Mark A.
Fite David B.
Herman Lawrence O.
Murray John E.
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