US Patent Issued to SiFive on Jan. 20 for "Vector instruction processing after primary decode" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,197, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vector instruction processing after primary decode" was invented by Bradley Gene Burgess (Sunset Valley, Texas) and David Kravitz (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for cracking and processing vector instructions in a vector pipeline after decoding of a single or a first micro-operation in a main or primary pipeline are described. An integrated circuit includes a primary pipeline to decode a micro-operation from an instruction, create a reorder buffer entry in a reorder buffer for the micro-operation, responsive to a determ...