Patents by Inventor James Oliver Bondi

James Oliver Bondi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Microprocessor circuits, systems, and methods passing intermediate instructions between a short forward conditional branch instruction and target instruction through pipeline, then suppressing results if branch taken
    Patent number: 5799180
    Abstract: Circuits, systems, and methods relating to processor which processes a plurality of sequentially arranged instructions. In the method, one method step (10) receives into a processor pipeline an instruction from the plurality of sequentially arranged instructions. Another step (12) determines whether the received instruction comprises a short forward branch instruction. If the received instruction comprises a short forward branch instruction, the method (14) issues a detection signal and (16) issues a condition signal representing whether or not the condition of the short forward branch instruction is satisfied. Continuing, the method (18) receives into the processor pipeline a first group of instructions of the plurality of sequentially arranged instructions, where each is between the short forward branch instruction and the target instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Jonathan H. Shiell, James Oliver Bondi