Patent ID: 11960892
Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A method comprising:
receiving a packet that includes a set of processor instructions and a condition instruction, wherein the condition instruction includes a field for each functional unit of the set of functional units to specify, for each of the set of processor instructions, a respective register of a register file;
providing the set of processor instructions to a set of functional units;
for each of the set of processor instructions, determining whether to fully execute the respective instruction using a respective functional unit of the set of functional units based on a value stored in the respective register of the register file specified by the condition instruction, wherein the determining determines not to fully execute a first processor instruction of the set of processor instructions; and
performing at least a portion of the first processor instruction without writing a result of the first processor instruction.