US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 12 for "Conditional execution specification of instructions using conditional extension slots in the same execute packet in a VLIW processor" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,623, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Conditional execution specification of instructions using conditional extension slots in the same execute packet in a VLIW processor" was invented by Timothy David Anderson (University Park, Texas), Duc Quang Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas) and Joseph Raymond Michael Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a device includes a register file; a set of functional units coupled to the register file; and an instruction decoder coupled to the register file and to the set of functional units. The instruction decoder receives an executable in...