US Patent Issued to Ventana Micro Systems on Dec. 9 for "Microprocessor that performs mid-macro-op cache entry restart abort processing" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,468, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ventana Micro Systems Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Microprocessor that performs mid-macro-op cache entry restart abort processing" was invented by John G Favor (San Francisco), Michael N. Michael (Folsom, Calif.) and David S. Oliver (Providence, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microprocessor includes a macro-op (MOP) cache (MOC) having MOC entries (MEs) holding MOPs. An instruction fetch circuit fetches from the MOC the MOPS of an ME for execution, and a back-end detects that a MOP of the ME is causing a need for an abort type within a predetermined subset of abort types. A control circuit us...