US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on July 29 for "Implementing a micro-operation cache with compaction" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,207, issued on July 29, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Implementing a micro-operation cache with compaction" was invented by Jagadish B. Kotra (Austin, Texas) and John Kalamatianos (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for compacting multiple groups of micro-operations into individual cache lines of a micro-operation cache are disclosed. A processor includes at least a decode unit and a micro-operation cache. When a new group of micro-operations is decoded and ready to be written to the micro-operation cache, the micro-operation cache determines which ...