Software for producing instructions in a compressed format for a VLIW processor

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5787302
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08649731

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Software creates a compressed instruction format for a VLIW processor which allows greater efficiency in use of cache and memory. Instructions are byte aligned and variable length. Branch targets are uncompressed. Format bits specify how many issue slots are used in a following instruction. NOPS are not stored in memory. Individual operations are compressed according to features such as whether they are resultless, guarded, short, zeroary, unary, or binary. Instructions are stored in compressed form in memory and in cache. Instructions are decompressed on the fly after being read out from cache.

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  • NYTELL SOFTWARE LLC;U.S. PHILIPS CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ang, Michael Santa Clara, CA 11 253
Hampapuram, Hari Sunnyvale, CA 151 4320
Jacobs, Eino Palo Alto, CA 16 397
Lee, Yen C San Jose, CA 7 248

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