Muhammad Umar FAROOQ

Memcpy micro-operation reduction

Move elimination

Methods and apparatus for storing a copy of a current fetched instruction when a miss threshold is exceeded until a refill threshold is reached

Set indexing for first-level and second-level set-associative cache

Processing of instructions fetched from memory

Predicting an outcome of an instruction following a flush

Shared pointer for local history records used by prediction circuitry

Apparatus and method for making predictions for instruction flow changing instructions

Apparatus and method for making predictions for instruction flow changing instructions

Misprediction of predicted taken branches in a data processing apparatus

Caching override indicators for statistically biased branches to selectively override a global branch predictor

Apparatus and method for performing multiple control flow predictions

Branch target look up suppression

Cache hierarchy management

Shortcut path for a branch target buffer

Instruction predecoding