Microprocessor with non-aligned circular addressing
US6453405B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 31, 2000 |
| Grant date | Sep 17, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 17, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/3885
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A data processing system having a central processing unit (CPU) with address generation circuitry for accessing a circular buffer region in a non-aligned manner is provided. The CPU has an instruction set architecture that is optimized for intensive numeric algorithm processing. The CPU has dual load/store units connected to dual memory ports of a memory controller. The CPU can execute two aligned data transfers each having a length of one byte, two bytes, four bytes, or eight bytes in parallel by executing two load/store instructions. The CPU can also execute a single non-aligned data transfer having a length of four bytes or eight bytes by executing a non-aligned load/store instruction that utilizes both memory ports. A data transfer address for each load/store instruction is formed by fetching the instruction (600), decoding the instruction (610) to determine instruction type, transfer data size, addressing mode and scaling selection. For a non-aligned instruction, after selectively scaling (620) an offset provided by the instruction and combining the selectively scaled offset with a base address value the resultant address is then augmented (640) by a line size associated with …
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