Instruction execution system for super-scalar processor

    公开(公告)号:DE19804146A1

    公开(公告)日:1998-09-17

    申请号:DE19804146

    申请日:1998-02-03

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: The system has at least one command supply unit. A command buffer stores commands and specifies the source operand and the target operand of the commands. An operand is specified as a target operand of a first command in the buffer and as a source operand of a second command in the buffer. The system has an output device to output the commands to one of the command supply units. The output device outputs a command when all source operands of the command are sufficient. The system also has a display device to show the source operands of the second command as sufficient after the first command is output to a first command supply unit and before the value of the operands is provided.

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    公开(公告)号:DE69831282T2

    公开(公告)日:2006-08-10

    申请号:DE69831282

    申请日:1998-02-05

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: The invention relates to the area of register renaming and allocation in superscalar computer systems. When a multitude of instructions in the instruction stream reads from or writes to a certain logical register, said logical register will have to be represented by a multitude of physical registers. Therefore, there have to exist several physical rename registers per logical register. The oldest one of said rename registers defines the architected state of the computer system, the in-order state. The invention provides a method for administration of the various register instances. Both the registers representing the in-order state and the various rename instances are kept in one common circular buffer. There exist two pointers per logical register: The first one, the in-order pointer, points to the register that represents the in-order state, the second one, the rename pointer, points to the most recent rename instance.

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