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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 dateDec 17, 1996
Grant dateOct 12, 1999
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Expiry dateDec 17, 2016

Classification

  • 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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