ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,218, issued on March 25, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Cracking instructions into a plurality of micro-operations" was invented by Quentin Eric Nouvel (Antibes, France), Luca Nassi (Antibes, France), Nicola Piano (Antibes, France), Albin Pierrick Tonnerre (Nice, France) and Geoffray Matthieu Lacourba (Nice, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus, method for data processing. The apparatus comprises post decode cracking circuitry responsive to receipt of decoded instructions from decode circuitry of a processing pipeline, to crack the decoded instructions into micro-operations to b...