公开(公告)号：US11294681B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-05

申请号：US16888783

申请日：2020-05-31

Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated

Inventor： Kai Chirca ,  Paul Daniel Gauvreau ,  David Edward Smith, Jr.

IPC: G06F9/32 ,  G06F9/38

Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising instruction processing circuitry for processing a plurality of program instructions and instruction prediction circuitry. The instruction prediction circuitry comprises circuitry for detecting successive occurrences of a same program loop sequence of program instructions. The instruction prediction circuitry also comprises circuitry for predicting a number of iterations of the same program loop sequence of program instructions, in response to detecting, by the circuitry for detecting, that a second occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions comprises a same number of iterations as a first occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions.

公开(公告)号：US11875155B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-16

申请号：US17578516

申请日：2022-01-19

Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated

Inventor： Kai Chirca ,  Paul Daniel Gauvreau ,  David Edward Smith, Jr.

IPC: G06F9/32 ,  G06F9/38

CPC classification number: G06F9/325 ,  G06F9/3806 ,  G06F9/3846

Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising instruction processing circuitry for processing a plurality of program instructions and instruction prediction circuitry. The instruction prediction circuitry comprises circuitry for detecting successive occurrences of a same program loop sequence of program instructions. The instruction prediction circuitry also comprises circuitry for predicting a number of iterations of the same program loop sequence of program instructions, in response to detecting, by the circuitry for detecting, that a second occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions comprises a same number of iterations as a first occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions.