US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Dec. 2 for "Processor having switch instruction circuit" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,828, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Processor having switch instruction circuit" was invented by Christopher I. W. Norrie (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation a processor has an instruction fetch circuit fetching instructions, the instruction fetch circuit having an input and an output and a decode circuit to decode the fetched instructions, the decode circuit having a first and second input, and an output, wherein the decode circuit first input is coupled to the instruction fetch circuit output receiving the fetched instructions, and an execution ...