Patents by Inventor Lawrence J. Powell, Jr.

Lawrence J. Powell, Jr. 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).

  • Patent number: 11175923
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for marking load and store instruction overlap in a processor pipeline is described. The method includes detecting a load instruction following a store instruction in an instruction stream. The load instruction and the store instruction include instruction text. The instruction text includes operand address information. The method includes comparing operand address information of the store instruction with operand address information of the load instruction to determine whether there is a memory image overlap in an issue queue between the operand address information of the store instruction and the load instruction. The method also includes delaying the load instruction in the processor pipeline in response to determining that there is a memory image overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory W. Alexander, James J. Bonanno, Adam B. Collura, Bruce C. Giamei, Christian Jacobi, Jang-Soo Lee, Edward T. Malley, Lawrence J. Powell, Jr., Anthony Saporito
  • Publication number: 20180232234
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for marking load and store instruction overlap in a processor pipeline is described. The method includes detecting a load instruction following a store instruction in an instruction stream. The load instruction and the store instruction include instruction text. The instruction text includes operand address information. The method includes comparing operand address information of the store instruction with operand address information of the load instruction to determine whether there is a memory image overlap in an issue queue between the operand address information of the store instruction and the load instruction. The method also includes delaying the load instruction in the processor pipeline in response to determining that there is a memory image overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: GREGORY W. ALEXANDER, JAMES J. BONANNO, ADAM B. COLLURA, BRUCE C. GIAMEI, CHRISTIAN JACOBI, JANG-SOO LEE, EDWARD T. MALLEY, LAWRENCE J. POWELL, Jr., ANTHONY SAPORITO
  • Patent number: 7188233
    Abstract: A system for performing floating point arithmetic operations including a plurality of stages making up a pipeline, the stages including a first stage and a last stage. The system also includes a register file adapted for receiving a store instruction for input to the pipeline, where the data associated with the store instruction is dependent on a previous operation still in the pipeline. The system further includes a store register adapted for outputting the data associated with the store instruction to memory and a control unit having instructions. The instructions are directed to inputting the store instruction into the pipeline and to providing a path for forwarding the data associated with the store instruction from the last stage in the pipeline to the store register for use by the store instruction if the previous operation immediately precedes the store operation in the pipeline and if there is a data type match between the store instruction and the previous operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Juergen Haess, Michael Kroener, Dung Quoc Nguyen, Lawrence J. Powell, Jr., Eric M. Schwarz, Son Dao-Trong, Raymond C. Yeung