Patents by Inventor Michael A. Smoolca

Michael A. Smoolca 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 system for nonsequential execution of intermixed scalar and vector instructions in a data processing system utilizing a finish instruction array
    Patent number: 5446913
    Abstract: A method and system for enhancing processing efficiency in a data processing system which includes multiple scalar instruction processors and a vector instruction processor. An ordered sequence of intermixed scalar and vector instructions is processed in a nonsequential order by coupling those instructions to selected processors. As each instruction is finished an indication of that state is stored within a finish instruction array. The first vector instruction within the ordered sequence is initiated within the vector instruction processor only after an indication that each scalar instruction preceding the first vector instruction is finished. A vector advance signal is generated by the vector instruction processor each time processing of a vector instruction is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Norman C. Chou, Edward J. D'Avignon, James C. Gregerson, James R. Robinson, Michael S. Siegel, Michael A. Smoolca, Albert J. Van Norstrand, Jr.