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USO0RE41751E
(19) United States (12) Reissued Patent
(10) Patent Number:
Heishi et al. (54)
(45) Date of Reissued Patent:
INSTRUCTION CONVERTING APPARATUS USING PARALLEL EXECUTION CODE
4,611,281 A 4,785,393 A 4,858,105 A
(75) Inventors: Taketo Heishi, Osaka (JP); Tetsuya _
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Assignee: Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (JP)
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Appl. N0.: 10/720,030 Filed: Nov. 24, 2003
Relssue of:
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5,452,461 A 5,488,710 A
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5,901,301 A
9/1995 Umekita et a1. ..... .. 717/149 1/1996 Sato etal. ................. .. 711/125
5/1999 Mt
03053325 03447021
3/1991 6/1991
JP
05-289870
11/1993
JP
09'026878
1/1997
6,324,639
Issued:
Nov. 27, 2001
Primary ExamineriEddie P Chan
Appl. No: Filed;
09/280,777 Mar, 29, 1999
Assistant Examineriwilliam B Partridge (74) Attorney, Agent, or FirmiMcDermott Will & Emery
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Foreign Application Priority Data
(57) Mar. 30, 1998
(JP)
Apr. 8, 1998
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ABSTRACT
10-083368
A processor can decode Short instructions With a Word
length equal to one unit ?eld and long instructions With a Word length equal to tWo unit ?elds. An opcode of each kind of instruction is arranged into the ?rst unit ?eld assigned to the instruction. The number of instructions to be executed by the processor in parallel is s. When the ratio of short to long instructions is s-1:1, the s-1 short instructions are assigned to
the ?rst unit ?eld to the s-ltA unit ?eld in the parallel execu tion code, and the long instruction is assigned to the s”’ unit ?eld to the s+k—1 th unit ?eld in the same P arallel execution
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BACKGROUND ART FIG. 1A LONG INSTRUCTION
SHORT INSTRUCTION
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