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Current Assignee
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Patent Number
Patent Inventor Names
Ravi P. Singh0
Charles P. Roth0
Gregory A. Overkamp0
Date of Patent
December 30, 2008
0Patent Application Number
097315230
Date Filed
December 6, 2000
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
In one embodiment, a pipelined processor is described that includes an execution pipeline having a plurality of stages and a multi-cycle instruction (MCI) controller adapted to assert a stall signal to stall the multi-cycle instruction within one of the stages of the execution pipeline. The MCI controller is adapted to issue a plurality of instructions to subsequent stages in the pipeline while the multi-cycle instruction is stalled.
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