Patents by Inventor Paul Daniel Gauvreau

Paul Daniel Gauvreau 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).

  • Processing device with a microbranch target buffer for branch prediction using loop iteration count
    Patent number: 11875155
    Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising instruction processing circuitry for processing a plurality of program instructions and instruction prediction circuitry. The instruction prediction circuitry comprises circuitry for detecting successive occurrences of a same program loop sequence of program instructions. The instruction prediction circuitry also comprises circuitry for predicting a number of iterations of the same program loop sequence of program instructions, in response to detecting, by the circuitry for detecting, that a second occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions comprises a same number of iterations as a first occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Kai Chirca, Paul Daniel Gauvreau, David Edward Smith, Jr.
  • EVENT HANDLING IN PIPELINE EXECUTE STAGES
    Publication number: 20220365787
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an execute packet that includes a first instruction and a second instruction and executing the first instruction and the second instruction using a pipeline. Executing the first and second instructions includes storing a result of the first instruction in a holding register; determining whether an event that interrupts execution of the execute packet occurs prior to completion of the executing of the second instruction; and based on the event not occurring, committing the result of the first instruction after completion of the executing of the second instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Kai CHIRCA, Timothy D. ANDERSON, Paul Daniel GAUVREAU
  • Storing a result of a first instruction of an execute packet in a holding register prior to completion of a second instruction of the execute packet
    Patent number: 11403110
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an execute packet that includes a first instruction and a second instruction and executing the first instruction and the second instruction using a pipeline. Executing the first and second instructions includes storing a result of the first instruction in a holding register; determining whether an event that interrupts execution of the execute packet occurs prior to completion of the executing of the second instruction; and based on the event not occurring, committing the result of the first instruction after completion of the executing of the second instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Kai Chirca, Timothy D. Anderson, Paul Daniel Gauvreau
  • PROCESSING DEVICE WITH A MICROBRANCH TARGET BUFFER FOR BRANCH PREDICTION USING LOOP ITERATION COUNT
    Publication number: 20220137972
    Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising instruction processing circuitry for processing a plurality of program instructions and instruction prediction circuitry. The instruction prediction circuitry comprises circuitry for detecting successive occurrences of a same program loop sequence of program instructions. The instruction prediction circuitry also comprises circuitry for predicting a number of iterations of the same program loop sequence of program instructions, in response to detecting, by the circuitry for detecting, that a second occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions comprises a same number of iterations as a first occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Kai Chirca, Paul Daniel Gauvreau, David Edward Smith, JR.
  • Processing device with a microbranch target buffer for branch prediction using loop iteration count
    Patent number: 11294681
    Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising instruction processing circuitry for processing a plurality of program instructions and instruction prediction circuitry. The instruction prediction circuitry comprises circuitry for detecting successive occurrences of a same program loop sequence of program instructions. The instruction prediction circuitry also comprises circuitry for predicting a number of iterations of the same program loop sequence of program instructions, in response to detecting, by the circuitry for detecting, that a second occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions comprises a same number of iterations as a first occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kai Chirca, Paul Daniel Gauvreau, David Edward Smith, Jr.
  • EVENT HANDLING IN PIPELINE EXECUTE STAGES
    Publication number: 20210124589
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an execute packet that includes a first instruction and a second instruction and executing the first instruction and the second instruction using a pipeline. Executing the first and second instructions includes storing a result of the first instruction in a holding register; determining whether an event that interrupts execution of the execute packet occurs prior to completion of the executing of the second instruction; and based on the event not occurring, committing the result of the first instruction after completion of the executing of the second instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Kai CHIRCA, Timothy D. ANDERSON, Paul Daniel GAUVREAU
  • PROCESSING DEVICE WITH A MICRO-BRANCH TARGET BUFFER FOR BRANCH PREDICTION
    Publication number: 20200379764
    Abstract: An integrated circuit comprising instruction processing circuitry for processing a plurality of program instructions and instruction prediction circuitry. The instruction prediction circuitry comprises circuitry for detecting successive occurrences of a same program loop sequence of program instructions. The instruction prediction circuitry also comprises circuitry for predicting a number of iterations of the same program loop sequence of program instructions, in response to detecting, by the circuitry for detecting, that a second occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions comprises a same number of iterations as a first occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Kai Chirca, Paul Daniel Gauvreau, David Edward Smith, JR.