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Register device

US4945510A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 16, 1987
Grant dateJul 31, 1990
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Expiry dateDec 16, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F9/462
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A register device includes a register set group, a switching control unit, a write control unit, a write flag memory unit, and a read control unit. The register set group consists of a plurality of register sets each constituted by a plurality of registers. The switching control unit selects a register set to be used in processing from the register set group in response to a saving/recovery instruction. The write control unit writes data in registers of the register set selected by the switching control unit in response to a write instruction. A write flag representing whether data is written in each of the registers is held by the write flag memory unit. The read control unit determines, in response to a read instruction, a register in which data is written most recently of a plurality of registers corresponding to each other between the register sets with reference to the write flags, thereby reading out data from the register.

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