Processor having plurality of functional units for orderly retiring outstanding operations based upon its associated tags

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PATENT NO 5226126
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07483223

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A pipeline control system is distributed over the functional units (15, 17, 20, 25) in a processor (10). Decoder logic (12) issues operations, each with an associated tag, to the functional units, with up to n operations allowed to be outstanding. The units execute the operations and report termination information back to the decoder logic, but do not irrevocably change the state of the machine. Based on the termination information, the decoder logic retires normally terminated operations in order. If an operation terminates abnormally, the decoder logic instructs the units to back out of those operations that include and are later than the operation that terminated abnormally.

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NEXGEN INC1623 BUCKEYE DRIVE MILPITAS CA 95053

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Cargnoni, Robert A Sunnyvale, CA 14 1036
Favor, John G San Jose, CA 99 3198
Greenley, Dale R San Jose, CA 11 971
McFarland, Harold L San Jose, CA 15 1324
Mehta, Shrenik San Jose, CA 8 944
Stiles, David R Sunnyvale, CA 28 1829
Van, Dyke Korbin S Fremont, CA 58 5194

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