Patents by Inventor Trevor Dcosaran

Trevor Dcosaran 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).

  • System and method for retiring approximately simultaneously a group of instructions in a superscalar microprocessor
    Patent number: 6131157
    Abstract: An system and method for retiring instructions in a superscalar microprocessor which executes a program comprising a set of instructions having a predetermined program order, the retirement system for simultaneously retiring groups of instructions executed in or out of order by the microprocessor. The retirement system comprises a done block for monitoring the status of the instructions to determine which instruction or group of instructions have been executed, a retirement control block for determining whether each executed instruction is retirable, a temporary buffer for storing results of instructions executed out of program order, and a register array for storing retirable-instruction results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Johannes Wang, Sanjiv Garg, Trevor Dcosaran