US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Jan. 13 for "Multi-cycle scheduler with speculative picking of micro-operations" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,265, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-cycle scheduler with speculative picking of micro-operations" was invented by David N. Suggs (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-cycle scheduler for a processor includes early wake circuitry, late wake circuitry, and picker circuitry. In a first cycle of a clock, the early wake circuitry speculatively identifies child micro-operations as ready whose dependencies are satisfied by a set of ready parent micro-operations. In a second cycle of the clock, the picker circuitry picks at least one of the child micro-operations i...