ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,563, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Split register list for renaming" was invented by Sree Harsha Kosuru (Fort Collins, Colo.), Eric Dixon (Fort Collins, Colo.), Erik Swanson (Fort Collins, Colo.), Michael Estlick (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Patrick Michael Lowry (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system may include a processor configured to detect that a data unit size for an instruction is smaller than a register. The processor may allocate a first portion of the register to the instruction in a manner that leaves a second portion of the register a...