ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,226, issued on June 24, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Vector instruction cracking after scalar dispatch" was invented by Kathlene Rose Magnus (San Antonio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for vector instruction cracking after scalar dispatch are described. An integrated circuit includes a primary pipeline and a vector pipeline. The primary pipeline is configured to determine a type of instruction, responsive to a determination that the instruction is a vector instruction, create a reorder buffer entry in a reorder buffer for the vector instruction prior to out-of-order processing in the prima...