Method for writing a program to control processors using any instructions selected from original instructions and defining the instructions used as a new instruction set
US5964861A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 17, 1996 |
| Grant date | Oct 12, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 17, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F30/30
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for designing a processor. The method utilises the full flexibility of an original instruction set in writing programs for operation of the processor the subset of instruction words used in writing the program are then used in defining the instruction decoder of the processor.
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