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Microcomputer having variable bit width area for displacement and circuit for handling immediate data larger than instruction word

US6253308A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 2, 1998
Grant dateJun 26, 2001
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Expiry dateApr 2, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2207/5352
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A microcomputer CMU adopting the general purpose register method is enabled to have a small program capacity or a high program memory using efficiency and a low system cost, while enjoying the advantage of simplification of the instruction decoding as in the RISC machine having a fixed length instruction format of the prior art, by adopting a fixed length instruction format having a power of 2 but a smaller bit number than that of the maximum data word length fed for instruction execution. And, the control of the coded division is executed by noting the code bits.

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