US Patent Issued to SiFive on May 27 for "Stalling issue queue entries until consecutive allocated entries are available for segmented stores" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,718, issued on May 27, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Stalling issue queue entries until consecutive allocated entries are available for segmented stores" was invented by Josh Smith (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing segmented vector store operations is disclosed. The method includes decoding one or more segmented vector store micro-operations (uops) of segmented vector store instruction in a pipeline, allocating, based on each of the one or more segmented vector store uops, one or more respective store buffer entries in First-in, First-out (FIFO) order, stalling the pipeline un...