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Microprocessor including means for concurrently copying ALU results into selected operand register subsets and at least one main memory locations

US4615004A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 13, 1984
Grant dateSep 30, 1986
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Expiry dateDec 13, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F15/786
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A microprocessor having a single common data bus (17) to which the output (33) of the arithmetic-logic unit (11) as well as input and output of the data memory (13) are connected without intermediate buffer registers. Of the working registers (21, 23, 25, 27) connected to the ALU inputs, one group (21, 23) is loaded from the common data bus and the other group (25, 27), used as accumulators, is directly loaded from the ALU output. Specific control circuitry (51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61) allows selective storing of ALU output values into accumulators (25, 27), and simultaneous transfer with selective scaling into another register and into an addressed memory location within the same cycle during which the instruction was executed.

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