Apparatus, method and system for fast register renaming using virtual renaming, including by using rename information or a renamed register
US6950928B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 30, 2001 |
| Grant date | Sep 27, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 13, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/3858
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for renaming a source for use with a processor, the method including providing an instruction, building instruction dependency information based on the instruction, caching the instruction based on the instruction dependency information to provide a cached instruction, renaming a register based on the cached instruction to provide a renamed register, and multiplexing the instruction dependency information and the renamed register to rename the source.
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