Skjerven Morrill LLP
High speed multiple-bit flip-flop
A vertical multi-threading processor includes one or more execution pipelines that are formed from a plurality of multiple-bit pipeline register flip-flops. The multiple-bit pipeline register flip-flops supply multiple storage bits. The individual bits of a multiple-bit pipeline register flip-flop store data for one of respective multiple threads or processes. When an executing (first) process stalls due to a stall condition, for example a cache miss, an active bit of the multiple-bit register flip-flop is stalled, removed from activity on the pipeline, and a previously inactive bit becomes active for executing a previously inactive (second) process. All states of the stalled first process are preserved in a temporarily inactive bit of the individual multiple-bit register flip-flop in each pipeline stage.
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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inventional inventional
Joseph I. Gajendra P. Renu
Chamdani Singh Raman