Patents by Inventor Michael Mroczek

Michael Mroczek 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 efficient pipelining
    Patent number: 6523106
    Abstract: Only one pipe in superscalar microprocessor contains particular functional logic necessary to process a specific instruction. When the specific instruction appears in an instruction stream, the microprocessor replicates the specific instruction so that there are as many identical instructions in the stream as there are pipes. The identical instructions appear contiguously in the instruction stream. Each identical instruction is processed by a different one of the pipes. The pipe with the particular functional logic performs the necessary operations for the specific instruction while the other pipes treat the instruction as a null operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Mroczek, Umberto Santoni, Nazar A. Zaidi, Mike Morrison