Inventor

CHRISTIE DAVID S

US78 patents

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CHRISTIE DAVID S

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC

Method of controlling access to control registers of a microprocessor

Method for selectively disabling interrupts on a secure execution mode-capable processor

Method and mechanism for speculatively executing threads of instructions

Chipset configured to perform data-directed prefetching

Microprocessor with built-in instruction tracing capability

Superscalar microprocessor including flag operand renaming and forwarding apparatus

Method and apparatus for controlling interrupts in a secure execution mode-capable processor

System architecture for high speed ray tracing

Central processing unit (CPU) accessing an extended register set in an extended register mode

Exception handling with reduced overhead in a multithreaded multiprocessing system

Basic block oriented trace cache utilizing a basic block sequence buffer to indicate program order of cached basic blocks

Processor programably configurable to execute enhanced variable byte length instructions including predicated execution, three operand addressing, and increased register space

System and method of controlling access to privilege partitioned address space for a model specific register file

Data transaction typing for improved caching and prefetching characteristics

Microprocessor configured to execute multiple threads including interrupt service routines

Microcode patching apparatus and method

Dependency checking and forwarding of variable width operands

Controlling access to a control register of a microprocessor

Stack switching mechanism in a computer system

System and method for transparent handling of extended register states

Transparent extended state save

Instruction redefinition using model specific registers

Mechanism for forwarding operands based on predicated instructions

Microprocessor and method of using a segment override prefix instruction field to expand the register file

Microprocessor using an instruction field to expand the condition flags and a computer system employing the microprocessor

Program counter update mechanism

Dependency checking and forwarding of variable width operands

Computer system including a secure execution mode-capable CPU and a security services processor connected via a secure communication path

Initialization of a computer system including a secure execution mode-capable processor

Method and apparatus for controlling operation of a secure execution mode-capable processor in system management mode

Mechanism for selectively blocking peripheral device accesses to system memory

Multiple entry points for system call instructions

Method of controlling access to an address translation data structure of a computer system

System and method for controlling access to a privilege-partitioned address space with a fixed set of attributes

Interrupt descriptor cache for a microprocessor

Program counter update mechanism

Mechanism for fast revalidation of virtual tags

Processor configured to detect program phase changes and to adapt thereto

Increasing general registers in X86 processors

Microprocessor using an instruction field to specify condition flags for use with branch instructions and a computer system employing the microprocessor

Superscalar microprocessor including flag operand renaming and forwarding apparatus

Program counter update mechanism

Microprocessor using an instruction field to specify expanded functionality and a computer system employing same

Method and apparatus for storing and retrieving security attributes

Microprocessor including an interrupt polling unit configured to poll external devices for interrupts using interrupt acknowledge bus transactions

VETCO GRAY INC ABB

Horizontal tree block for subsea wellhead and completion method

ABBVETCO GRAY INC

Tubular threaded connector joint with separate interfering locking profile

VETCO GRAY INC

Tubing running equipment for offshore rig with surface blowout preventer

CHUNG JAEWOONG

Automatic suspend atomic hardware transactional memory in response to detecting an implicit suspend condition and resume thereof

HOHMUTH MICHAEL P

Processor with support for nested speculative sections with different transactional modes