PROCESSING ELEMENT HAVING DUAL CONTROL STORES TO MINIMIZE BRANCH LATENCY

Patent №

US 8,046,569

Granted

2011-10-25

Filed 2007

Owner

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

Lab

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11796810

Embodiments involve an embedded processing element that fetches at least two possible next instructions (control words) in parallel in one cycle, and executes one of them during the following cycle based on the result of a conditional branch test. Embodiments reduce or avoid branch penalties (zero penalty branches).

AI hardwareG06F 9/267G06F 9/322

AI classification

AI hardware0.75
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.

assignment · 269420412

Assignors

ZIEGLER, MICHAEL L.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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