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Rodney Wayne Smith

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Showing 51–70 of 70 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7624256 System and method wherein conditional instructions unconditionally provide output Thomas Andrew Sartorius, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Kenneth Alan Dockser, Michael Scott McIlvaine 2009-11-24
7617387 Methods and system for resolving simultaneous predicted branch instructions Brian Michael Stempel, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2009-11-10
7587580 Power efficient instruction prefetch mechanism Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Victor Roberts Augsburg, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Michael Scott McIlvaine 2009-09-08
7568070 Instruction cache having fixed number of variable length instructions Jeffrey Todd Bridges, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2009-07-28
7478228 Apparatus for generating return address predictions for implicit and explicit subroutine calls Brian Michael Stempel, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2009-01-13
7424563 Two-level interrupt service routine Michael Egnoah Birenbach, Gregory Brookshire, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Stephen G. Geist, Richard A. Moore +1 more 2008-09-09
7421568 Power saving methods and apparatus to selectively enable cache bits based on known processor state Brian Michael Stempel, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2008-09-02
7415638 Pre-decode error handling via branch correction Brian Michael Stempel, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2008-08-19
7406613 Translation lookaside buffer (TLB) suppression for intra-page program counter relative or absolute address branch instructions James Norris Dieffenderfer, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Brian Michael Stempel 2008-07-29
7404042 Handling cache miss in an instruction crossing a cache line boundary Brian Michael Stempel, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2008-07-22
7376815 Methods and apparatus to insure correct predecode James Norris Dieffenderfer, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2008-05-20
7366877 Speculative instruction issue in a simultaneously multithreaded processor Victor Roberts Augsburg, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2008-04-29
7278012 Method and apparatus for efficiently accessing first and second branch history tables to predict branch instructions Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Brian Michael Stempel, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, James Norris Dieffenderfer 2007-10-02
7210024 Conditional instruction execution via emissary instruction for condition evaluation Michael Scott McIlvaine, James Norris Dieffenderfer, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2007-04-24
7203826 Method and apparatus for managing a return stack James Norris Dieffenderfer, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2007-04-10
7093100 Translation look aside buffer (TLB) with increased translational capacity for multi-threaded computer processes Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Les M. DeBruyne, Robert L. Goldiez, Michael Scott McIlvaine, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2006-08-15
6948053 Efficiently calculating a branch target address Victor Roberts Augsburg, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier 2005-09-20
6816962 Re-encoding illegal OP codes into a single illegal OP code to accommodate the extra bits associated with pre-decoded instructions Victor Roberts Augsburg, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Thomas Andrew Sartorius, Thomas Philip Speier 2004-11-09
6513134 System and method for tracing program execution within a superscalar processor Victor Roberts Augsburg, Jeffrey Todd Bridges, Thomas Andrew Sartorius 2003-01-28
D271054 Window vent 1983-10-18