Abstract: A LIDAR system for detecting an obstruction on a window that is associated with the LIDAR system, the LIDAR system includes at least one processor configured to detect, based on detection signals generated by an obstruction sensor of the LIDAR system, an obstruction that at least partially obstructs a passage of light through the window. The obstruction sensor differs from an object related sensor of the LIDAR system that is configured to detect of one or more objects within a field of view (FOV) of the LIDAR system.

Abstract: A method includes, in a processor that processes multiple segments of a sequence of instructions of program code, wherein each segment is defined as either speculative or non-speculative, dispatching the instructions of the segments into at least one instruction buffer. The instructions of the segments are executed, and, in each segment, at least some of the executed instructions of the segment are speculatively-committed from the at least one instruction buffer independently of any other segment. Dispatching the instructions includes dispatching the instructions of a first segment into a first region of the at least one instruction buffer, and dispatching the instructions of a second segment, which occurs later in the program code than the first segment, into a second region of the at least one instruction buffer before all the instructions of the first segment have been dispatched into the first region.

Abstract: A method includes, in a processor that processes multiple segments of a sequence of instructions of program code, wherein each segment is defined as either speculative or non-speculative, dispatching the instructions of the segments into at least one instruction buffer. The instructions of the segments are executed, and, in each segment, at least some of the executed instructions of the segment are speculatively-committed from the at least one instruction buffer independently of any other segment. Dispatching the instructions includes dispatching the instructions of a first segment into a first region of the at least one instruction buffer, and dispatching the instructions of a second segment, which occurs later in the program code than the first segment, into a second region of the at least one instruction buffer before all the instructions of the first segment have been dispatched into the first region.

Abstract: A method includes processing a sequence of instructions of program code that are specified using one or more architectural registers, by a hardware-implemented pipeline that renames the architectural registers in the instructions so as to produce operations specified using one or more physical registers. At least first and second segments of the sequence of instructions are selected, wherein the second segment occurs later in the sequence than the first segment. One or more of the architectural registers in the instructions of the second segment are renamed, before completing renaming the architectural registers in the instructions of the first segment, by pre-allocating one or more of the physical registers to one or more of the architectural registers.