Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Forwarding condition information from first processing circuitry to second processing circuitry
- Patent Title (中): 将条件信息从第一处理电路转发到第二处理电路
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Application No.: US13737137Application Date: 2013-01-09
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Publication No.: US09170819B2Publication Date: 2015-10-27
- Inventor: Nicolas Chaussade , Luca Scalabrino , Frederic Jean Denis Arsanto , Cedric Denis Robert Airaud
- Applicant: ARM LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F9/30
- IPC: G06F9/30 ; G06F9/38

Abstract:
A data processing apparatus comprises first and second processing circuitry. A conditional instruction executed by the second processing circuitry may have an outcome which is dependent on one of a plurality of sets of condition information maintained by the first processing circuitry. A first forwarding path can forward the sets of condition information from the first processing circuitry to a predetermined pipeline stage of a processing pipeline of the second processing circuitry. A request path can transmit a request signal from the second processing circuitry to the first processing circuitry, the request signal indicating a requested set of condition information which was not yet valid when a conditional instruction was at the predetermined pipeline stage. A second forwarding path may forward the requested set of condition information to a subsequent pipeline stage when the information becomes valid.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140195780A1 FORWARDING CONDITION INFORMATION FROM FIRST PROCESSING CIRCUITRY TO SECOND PROCESSING CIRCUITRY Public/Granted day:2014-07-10
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