US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on March 25 for "Multiple instruction set architectures on a processing device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,219, issued on March 25, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Multiple instruction set architectures on a processing device" was invented by Duc Bui (Grand Prairie, Texas), Timothy D. Anderson (University Park, Texas) and Paul Gauvreau (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for executing multiple instruction set architectures (ISAs) on a singular processing unit. In an implementation, a processor that includes a first decoder, a second decoder, instruction fetch circuitry, and instruction dispatch circuitry is configured to execute two separate instruction set architec...