Appeal No. 96-2607
Application 08/001,865
thereafter access that data from the buffer. The ability to
retrieve data directly from the bus will significantly
increase the operation speed of the processing system.
The independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for enhanced instruction dispatch
efficiency in a superscalar processor system capable of
fetching an application specified ordered sequence of
scalar instruc-tions and simultaneously dispatching a
group of said scalar instructions to a plurality of
execution units, said method comprising the steps of:
providing a plurality of intermediate storage
buffers within said superscalar processor system;
coupling each of said plurality of intermediate
storage buffers to a11 of said plurality of
execution units via an independent bus wherein each
independent bus is associated with a single one of
said plurality of intermediate storage buffers;
dispatching selected ones of said group of
scalar instructions to selected ones of said
plurality of execution units on an opportunistic
basis; and
transferring a result of execution of each of
said dispatched scalar instructions from one of said
plurality of execution units to a designated one of
said plurality of intermediate storage buffers via
an associated independent bus, wherein said results
may be stored without contention for access among
said plurality of execution units and wherein said
result is available to each of said plurality of
execution units.
The Examiner relies on the following references:
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