Split branch system utilizing separate set branch, condition and branch instructions and including dual instruction fetchers

N Sidwell; A Sturges

Split branch system utilizing separate set branch, condition and branch instructions and including dual instruction fetchers

N Sidwell (Inventor), A Sturges (Inventor)

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Translated title of the contribution	Split branch system utilizing separate set branch, condition and branch instructions and including dual instruction fetchers
Original language	English
Patent number	US5961637
Publication status	Published - 1999

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Other: Patent number: US5961637
This invention describes a way of splitting branch instructions into two parts, such that a branch target fetcher could be given as much advance warning as possible of a branch target. Unlike conventional prefetching, it does not require the fetcher to look ahead in the instruction stream

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