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Information handling system having a register remap structure using a content addressable table

US5841999A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 17, 1996
Grant dateNov 24, 1998
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Expiry dateApr 17, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F9/3863
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An information handling system includes an instruction unit, one or more execution units, a memory management unit, connected to the instruction unit, to a memory system, a cache management unit, one or more levels of cache memory associated with the one or more execution units, one or more I/O controllers connected to a bus which connects to the execution units and to the memory systems and to cache, and a completion unit for tracking sequence of instruction dispatch and instruction completion. The completion unit includes a Content Addressable Register Buffer Assignment Table, a Register Status Table, an Instruction Queue, and a Completion Table to control order of execution and completion of instructions in a sequence dependent on availability of operands.

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