US Patent Issued to SiFive on July 7 for "Cycle accurate tracing of vector instructions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,367, issued on July 7, was assigned to SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cycle accurate tracing of vector instructions" was invented by Bruce Ableidinger (San Mateo, Calif.) and Ernest L. Edgar (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for cycle accurate tracing of vector instructions. For example, a system may include a vector unit in communication with a scalar core. The vector unit may include a vector instruction queue that receives vector instructions from the scalar core. The vector unit may also include a vector execution unit that executes vector instructions from the vector instruct...