公开(公告)号：US20190138311A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-09

申请号：US15805935

申请日：2017-11-07

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Peter SASSONE ,  Christopher KOOB ,  Suresh Kumar VENKUMAHANTI

IPC: G06F9/30 ,  G06F9/38

CPC classification number: G06F9/30196 ,  G06F9/3822 ,  G06F9/3836 ,  G06F9/384 ,  G06F9/3853 ,  G06F9/3855 ,  G06F9/3857

Abstract: Very long instruction word (VLIW) instruction processing using a reduced-width processor is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a VLIW processor includes a control circuit configured to receive a VLIW packet that includes a first number of instructions and to distribute the instructions to a second number of instruction execution paths. The first number is greater than the second number. The VLIW processor also includes physical registers configured to store results of executing the instructions and a register renaming circuit that is coupled to the control circuit.