Patent ID: 7493474

Claim:
An instruction transform apparatus for transforming an instruction to a new form with added capabilities, the instruction transform apparatus comprising: an instruction register for receiving a sequence of instructions and a transform element that is an instruction wide bit field having instruction extension bits that do not, by themselves, constitute an instruction, the sequence beginning with a transform and load instruction, followed by the transform element, followed by an instruction to be transformed by the instruction extension bits; and a transform unit connected to the instruction register and an output of the transform unit connected to a transform storage unit, the transform unit holding the instruction extension bits partitioned into extension bit fields and prior to loading a transformed instruction in the transform storage unit, the transform unit combining the extension bit fields with associated bit fields in the instruction to be transformed to create expanded bit fields in a transformed instruction to provide additional capabilities beyond the capabilities provided by the instruction to be transformed prior to transformation, the transformed instruction with the expanded bit fields output from the transform unit being loaded in the transform storage unit by the transform unit.