Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Processing system having co-processor for storing data
- Patent Title (中): 具有用于存储数据的协处理器的处理系统
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Application No.: US12033538Application Date: 2008-02-19
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Publication No.: US07877576B2Publication Date: 2011-01-25
- Inventor: Toru Morikawa , Jiro Miyake , Hiroyuki Mizohata
- Applicant: Toru Morikawa , Jiro Miyake , Hiroyuki Mizohata
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2007-159388 20070615
- Main IPC: G06F15/00
- IPC: G06F15/00 ; G06F15/76

Abstract:
When an interruption instruction occurs in an information processing apparatus including a CPU and a coprocessor, execution of a single dedicated instruction “GETACX Dm,Dn” performs saving of necessary data from all registers. “Dm” is a value output from a general register group 104 to a first data input bus 120. Each of calculation units implemented in a coprocessor 110 recognizes a value stored therein. If a value “Dm” specifies one of the calculation units, the specified calculation unit outputs, to a selector 116, data stored in a register included in the specified calculation unit. An implemented calculation unit information output circuit 117 stores therein the count of the calculation units implemented in the coprocessor 110. If a value of the first data input bus 120 is greater than the count of the calculation units, the implemented calculation unit information output circuit 117 outputs a value “1” to a flag register 102. Based on the fact that the value stored on the flag register 102 is “1”, a CPU 100 recognizes that saving of the data from the register has been completed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080313429A1 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2008-12-18
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