Patents by Inventor Timothy Alan Olson

Timothy Alan Olson 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 pre-branch instruction
    Patent number: 6622240
    Abstract: A method and apparatus that minimizes instruction gaps behind a branch instruction in a multistage pipelined processor is disclosed. A pre-branch instruction that corresponds to a branch instruction to inserted into the instruction stream a sufficient number of instructions ahead of the branch instruction to insure that the pre-branch instruction exits the decode stage of the pipeline at the same time the branch instruction exits the first instruction fetch stage of the pipeline. The pre-branch instruction is decoded and causes the instruction fetch unit either to begin fetching instructions at a target address, where the branch is known or predicted to be taken, or to continue fetching instructions along the main execution path, the branch is known or predicted to be not taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Intrinsity, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Alan Olson, James S. Blomgren