Invention Application
- Patent Title: SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING A BRANCH MIS-PREDICTION BUFFER
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Application No.: US15877408Application Date: 2018-01-23
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Publication No.: US20180210735A1Publication Date: 2018-07-26
- Inventor: Jeffrey Allan (Alon) JACOB (YAAKOV) , Michael Boukaya
- Applicant: Ceva D.S.P. Ltd.
- Applicant Address: IL Herzlia Pituach
- Assignee: Ceva D.S.P. Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ceva D.S.P. Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: IL Herzlia Pituach
- Main IPC: G06F9/38
- IPC: G06F9/38
Abstract:
A system and method is provided for executing a conditional branch instruction. The system and method may include a branch predictor to predict one or more instructions that depend on the conditional branch instruction and a branch mis-prediction buffer to store correct instructions that were not predicted by the branch predictor during a branch mis-prediction.
Public/Granted literature
- US10409605B2 System and method for using a branch mis-prediction buffer Public/Granted day:2019-09-10
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