US Patent Issued to Simplex Micro on March 3 for "Microprocessor with speculative and in-order register sets" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,613, issued on March 3, was assigned to Simplex Micro Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Microprocessor with speculative and in-order register sets" was invented by Thang Minh Tran (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes a time counter and a time-resource matrix and statically dispatches speculative and in-order instructions. The time counter increments periodically, for example, every clock cycle, and the resulting count is used to statically schedule instruction execution. The processor includes a speculative register rename unit and a non-speculative register rename unit to allow certain types of instructions to be ...