US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 28 for "Processor subroutine cache" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,745, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Processor subroutine cache" was invented by Christian Wiencke (Garching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes an execution unit and a subroutine cache. The execution unit is configured to execute instructions. The subroutine cache us configured to provide instructions of a subroutine to the execution unit for execution. The subroutine cache includes subroutine instruction storage, a subroutine address register, and subroutine cache control logic. The subroutine control logic is configured to: identify a subroutine call instruction provide...