US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on Sept. 9 for "Apparatus for processor with hardware fence and associated methods" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,693, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Apparatus for processor with hardware fence and associated methods" was invented by Mark W. Johnson (Austin, Texas), Eric Deal (Austin, Texas) and Junkang Ren (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a pipelined processor. The pipelined processor includes a pipeline and a hardware fence. The hardware fence detects if a hazard condition exists by comparing an address for an input operation with an address for an output operation."

The patent was filed on Dec. 30, 2020, under Application No. 17/138,841.

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