Patents by Inventor Wen-Mel W. Hwu

Wen-Mel W. Hwu 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).

  • Processor architecture for multipass processing of instructions downstream of a stalled instruction
    Patent number: 8266413
    Abstract: A processor triggers a first advanced execution processing pass to an instruction sequence in response to a first stalled instruction and initiates execution of a further instruction in the instruction sequence that stalls during the performance of the first advanced execution processing pass. A second advanced execution pass is performed through the instruction sequence in which the further instruction is processed again to provide a valid result after stalling. In one form, the first instruction is performed while the processor operates in a normal execution mode and the first and second advanced execution processing passes are performed while the processor operates in an advance execution mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: Wen-Mel W. Hwu, Ronald Barnes