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Patent Inventor Names
Javier Carretero Casado0
Jaume Abella0
Pedro Chaparro Monferrer0
Xavier Vera0
Date of Patent
November 29, 2011
Patent Application Number
12469605
Date Filed
May 20, 2009
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Patent abstract
Methods and apparatuses for on-line testing for decode logic are presented. In one embodiment, a processor comprises translation logic to decode an instruction to micro-operations and extraction logic to determine first information about numbers of occurrences of fields in the micro-operations. In one embodiment, the processor further comprises verification logic to indicate whether the decoding results of the instruction are accurate based at least on the first information.
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