ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,540, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Technologies for prediction-based register renaming" was invented by Krste Asanovic (Oakland, Calif.) and Andrew Waterman (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for register renaming. For example, an integrated circuit is described that includes a first cluster including a first set of physical registers and a first execution resource circuit, wherein the inputs for operations of the first execution resource circuit are of a first data type; a second cluster including a second set of physical registers and a second ...