Central processing unit for a digital computer
US4812971A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 16, 1988 |
| Grant date | Mar 14, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 16, 2008 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/34
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A central processing unit for a digital computer. In one embodiment, the central processing unit comprises a plurality of pointer registers that may be used during instruction execution to directly address other registers. In a second embodiment, the central processing unit comprises a size register that is loaded during the decode of an operation code with a size code indicating the data path width for that operation code. During instruction execution, the size code may be used at various times to determine data path width.
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