Patent ID: 6044456
Filing Date: 2000-03-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method comprising:advancing corresponding information along a plurality of front-end pipelines, the plurality of front-end pipelines are in parallel and synchronous to each other;undergoing a stall condition by each of the plurality of front-end pipelines, the stall condition causing the plurality of front-end pipelines to become asynchronous to each other;invalidating information in at least one selected processing stage of each of the plurality of front-end pipelines;reloading corresponding information into each of the plurality of front-end pipelines; andadvancing a first front-end pipeline of the plurality of front-end pipelines upon deactivating the stall condition while a second front-end pipeline of the plurality of front-end pipelines remains idle for a predetermined number of time cycles until the first front-end pipeline becomes synchronous with the second front-end pipeline.