ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,650, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Store-to-load forwarding for processor pipelines" was invented by John Ingalls (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for store-to-load forwarding for processor pipelines. For example, an integrated circuit (e.g., a processor) for executing instructions includes a processor pipeline; a store queue that has entries associated with respective store instructions that are being executed, wherein an entry of the store queue includes a tag that is determined based on a virtual address of a target of the associated store ...