摘要:
An apparatus including first and second reservation stations. The first reservation station dispatches a load micro instruction, and indicates on a hold bus if the load micro instruction is a specified load micro instruction directed to retrieve an operand from a prescribed resource other than on-core cache memory. The second reservation station is coupled to the hold bus, and dispatches one or more younger micro instructions therein that depend on the load micro instruction for execution after a number of clock cycles following dispatch of the first load micro instruction, and if it is indicated on the hold bus that the load micro instruction is the specified load micro instruction, the second reservation station is configured to stall dispatch of the one or more younger micro instructions until the load micro instruction has retrieved the operand. The plurality of non-core resources includes a random access memory, configured to store microcode patches corresponding to the out-of-order processor which, upon initialization, accesses said random access memory to retrieve said microcode patches.
摘要:
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit includes a first n-type transistor, a discharge acceleration circuit and a discharge time circuit. The first n-type transistor has a first terminal coupled to a supply voltage, a second terminal coupled to a reference voltage, and a gate, wherein the first n-type transistor couples the supply voltage to the reference voltage during an ESD event at an I/O pad. The discharge acceleration circuit is coupled to the gate of the first n-type transistor to the I/O pad during the ESD event and coupled to the gate of the first n-type transistor to the reference voltage when there is no ESD event. The discharge time circuit, coupled to the discharge acceleration circuit and the supply voltage, controls a discharge time of the first n-type transistor of coupling the supply voltage to the reference voltage during the ESD event at the I/O pad.