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Fumio Arakawa

Fumio Arakawa, Kodaira JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090031114MULTITHREAD PROCESSOR - To guarantee response time while strictly maintaining the priority specified by software, a processor (01-29-2009
20090113186MICROCONTROLLER AND CONTROLLING SYSTEM - A microcontroller and a controlling system having the same are provided, in which the increase in the program code for performing floating-point arithmetic, in particular, the increase in the amount of code due to a variable are suppressed, and the processing overhead for converting fixed-point data into floating-point data is reduced. The microcontroller includes a floating-point converter which inputs integer data and corresponding decimal point position data as fixed-point data and which converts the input data into floating-point data by acquiring a fraction part, an exponent part, and a sign of the floating type from the input data, and a floating-point arithmetic logic unit which receives the output of the floating-point converter and calculates the floating-point data. The floating-point converter acquires the exponent part by performing addition and subtraction of the decimal point position data and the shift amount of the fraction part to the integer data.04-30-2009
20090210658DATA PROCESSOR - The RISC data processor is based on the idea that in case that there are many flag-generating instructions, the number of flags generated by each instruction is increased so that a decrease of flag-generating instructions exceeds an increase of flag-using instructions in quantity, thereby achieving the decrease in instructions. With the data processor, an instruction for generating flags according to operands' data sizes is defined. To an instruction set handled by the RISC data processor, an instruction capable of executing an operation on operand in more than one data size, which performs a process identical to an operation process conducted on the small-size operand on low-order bits of the large-size operand, and generates flags capable of coping with the respective data sizes regardless of the data size of each operand subjected to the operation is added. Thus, the reduction in instruction code space of the RISC data processor tight in instruction code space can be achieved.08-20-2009
20090271591VECTOR SIMD PROCESSOR - A data processor whose level of operation parallelism is enhanced by composing floating-point inner product execution units to be compatible with single instruction multiple data (SIMD) and thereby enhancing the operation processing capability is made possible. An operating system that can significantly enhance the level of operation parallelism per instruction while maintaining the efficiency of the floating-point length-4 vector inner product execution units is to be implemented. The floating-point length-4 vector inner product execution units are defined in the minimum width (32 bits for single precision) even where an extensive operating system becomes available, and compose the inner product execution units to be compatible with SIMD. The mutually augmenting effects of the inner product execution units and SIMD-compatible composition enhances the level of operation parallelism dramatically. Composition of the floating-point length-4 vector inner product execution units to calculate the sum of the inner product of length-4 vectors and scalar to be compatible with SIMD of four in parallel results in a processing capability of 32 FLOPS per cycle.10-29-2009
20100005279Data processor - The data processor executes an instruction having a direction for write to a reference register of other instruction flow and an instruction having a direction for reference register invalidation. The data processor is arranged as a data processor having typical functions as an integrated whole of processors (CPU01-07-2010
20100064119DATA PROCESSOR - The present invention is directed to realize efficient issue of a superscalar instruction in an instruction set including an instruction with a prefix. A circuit is employed which retrieves an instruction of each instruction code type other than a prefix on the basis of a determination result of decoders for determining an instruction code type, adds the immediately preceding instruction to the retrieved instruction, and outputs the resultant to instruction executing means. When an instruction of a target instruction code type is detected in a plurality of instruction units to be searched, the circuit outputs the detected instruction code and the immediately preceding instruction other than the target instruction code type as prefix code candidates. When an instruction of a target instruction code type cannot be detected at the rear end of the instruction units to be searched, the circuit outputs the instruction at the rear end as a prefix code candidate. When an instruction of a target instruction code type is detected at the head in the instruction code search, the circuit outputs the instruction code at the head.03-11-2010

Patent applications by Fumio Arakawa, Kodaira JP

Fumio Arakawa, Tokyo JP

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20090282213SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A basic cell capable of a fixed operating frequency regardless of the configuration information, which is also capable of effectively utilizing the arithmetic logic circuit within the cell in a LSI semiconductor integrated circuit, is capable of dynamic changes in configuration information. The circuit has an input switch ISW connected to multiple data input nodes, an output switch OSW connected to multiple data output nodes, a first data path containing an arithmetic logic circuit ALU and a result storage flip-flop CFF0 between the input switch ISW and output switch OSW. The second data path containing a data transfer flip-flop between an input switch ISW and an output switch OSW, and the result storage flip-flop CFF stores the calculated result data from the arithmetic logic circuit ALU, and the data transfer flip-flop holds data input from any of the multiple data input nodes.11-12-2009

Patent applications by Fumio Arakawa, Tokyo JP

Fumio Arakawa, Kodiara JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090106533DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - The data processing apparatus includes two or more execution resources, each enabling a predetermined process for executing an instruction. The execution resources enable a pipeline process. Each execution resource treats instructions according to an in-order system following the instructions' flow order in case that the execution resource is in charge of the instructions. Also, each execution resource treats instructions according to an out-of-order system regardless of the instructions' flow order in case that the instructions are treated by different execution resources. Thus, local processes in the execution resources can be simplified and materialized in a small-scale of hardware. Consequently, the need for the whole synchronization in processing across execution resources is eliminated, and the locality of processes and the efficiency of electric power are increased.04-23-2009