US Patent Issued to Ventana Micro Systems on Dec. 16 for "Microprocessor that performs partial fallback abort processing of multi-fetch block macro-op cache entries" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,929, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ventana Micro Systems Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Microprocessor that performs partial fallback abort processing of multi-fetch block macro-op cache entries" was invented by John G. Favor (San Francisco), Michael N. Michael (Folsom, Calif.) and David S. Oliver (Providence, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microprocessor includes a macro-op (MOP) cache (MOC) that holds MOC entries (MEs), including single-fetch block MEs (SF-MEs) and multi-fetch block MEs (MF-MEs), comprising MOPs decoded from architectural instructions. A prediction circuit generates fetch block (FBlk) start addresses (FBSAs...