US Patent Issued to Ventana Micro Systems on Dec. 16 for "Microprocessor that builds multi-fetch block macro-op cache entries in two-stage process" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,928, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ventana Micro Systems Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Microprocessor that builds multi-fetch block macro-op cache entries in two-stage process" was invented by John G. Favor (San Francisco) and Michael N. Michael (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microprocessor includes a prediction unit (PRU) that predicts a sequence of fetch blocks (FBlks) in a program instruction stream, a macro-op (MOP) cache (MOC) that comprises MOC entries (MEs), a decode unit, and a fusion engine. Each ME indicates whether it is a single-FBlk ME (SF-ME) that holds MOPs associated with a single FBlk whose archit...