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US Patent 7421561 - Instruction set for efficient bit stream and byte stream I/O

US Patent Issued on September 2, 2008
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Abstract

A system and method provide unaligned load/store functionality for a processor that supports only aligned load/store instructions. An exemplary embodiment includes an extension adapter including registers for storing data and load/store buffers for realigning data. A processor executes aligned load/store instructions that transfer data in multiples of bytes. Instructions are included for transferring data between memory and the load/store buffers, initializing and transferring data, initializing and transferring data in numbers of bits, advancing or offsetting a data pointer, and for flushing the load/store buffers. In a preferred embodiment, the extension adapter comprises a wide register file for buffering full words of data, load/store buffers formed from multiple single-bit registers for buffering data bits and streaming data for use by the processor, and address generators for pointing to data or memory addresses.

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Inventors

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Application

No. 10686882 filed on 10/15/2003

US Classes:

711/201Slip control, misaligning, boundary alignment

Field of Search

711/201Slip control, misaligning, boundary alignment

Examiners

Primary: Kim, Matthew
Assistant: Thomas, Shane M

Attorney, Agent or Firm

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G06F 12/00

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