Patents by Inventor Ashwani K. Gupta

Ashwani K. Gupta 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).

  • Method and apparatus for implementing a set-associative branch target buffer
    Patent number: 5574871
    Abstract: A Branch Target Buffer Circuit in a computer processor that predicts branch instructions with a stream of computer instructions is disclosed. The Branch Target Buffer Circuit uses a Branch Target Buffer Cache that stores branch information about previously executed branch instructions. The branch information stored in the Branch Target Buffer Cache is addressed by the last byte of each branch instruction. When an Instruction Fetch Unit in the computer processor fetches a block of instructions it sends the Branch Target Buffer Circuit an instruction pointer. Based on the instruction pointer, the Branch Target Buffer Circuit looks in the Branch Target Buffer Cache to see if any of the instructions in the block being fetched is a branch instruction. When the Branch Target Buffer Circuit finds an upcoming branch instruction in the Branch Target Buffer Cache, the Branch Target Buffer Circuit informs an Instruction Fetch Unit about the upcoming branch instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1996
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bradley D. Hoyt, Glenn J. Hinton, David B. Papworth, Ashwani K. Gupta, Michael A. Fetterman, Subramanian Natarajan, Sunil Shenoy, Reynold V. D'Sa