ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,930, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Prediction using unified predictor circuitry" was invented by Mbou Eyole (Soham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prediction circuitry for a data processing system comprises input circuitry to receive status inputs associated with instructions or memory access requests processed by the data processing system. Unified predictor circuitry comprises shared hardware circuitry configurable to act as a plurality of different types of predictor. The unified predictor circuitry generates, according to a unified prediction algorithm based on the status inp...