Thomas C. McDonald

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Austin, TX, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Quick predictor override and update by a BTAC
- Patent number 11,995,447
- Issue date May 28, 2024
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Spectre fixes with predictor mode tag
- Patent number 11,783,050
- Issue date Oct 10, 2023
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Small branch predictor escape
- Patent number 11,614,944
- Issue date Mar 28, 2023
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Branch density detection for prefetcher
- Patent number 11,567,776
- Issue date Jan 31, 2023
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Dual branch execute and table update with single port
- Patent number 11,461,103
- Issue date Oct 4, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Dual branch format
- Patent number 11,360,774
- Issue date Jun 14, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Side cache array for greater fetch bandwidth
- Patent number 11,334,491
- Issue date May 17, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Adjustable write policies controlled by feature control registers
- Patent number 11,275,686
- Issue date Mar 15, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Speculative branch pattern update
- Patent number 11,113,067
- Issue date Sep 7, 2021
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Prefix accumulation for efficient processing of instructions with m...
- Patent number 8,838,938
- Issue date Sep 16, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Efficient branch target address cache entry replacement
- Patent number 8,832,418
- Issue date Sep 9, 2014
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for marking start and end bytes of instruction...
- Patent number 8,612,727
- Issue date Dec 17, 2013
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus for efficiently determining instruction length instructio...
- Patent number 8,533,434
- Issue date Sep 10, 2013
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- John L. Duncan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Bad branch prediction detection, marking, and accumulation for fast...
- Patent number 8,473,726
- Issue date Jun 25, 2013
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for marking start and end bytes of instruction...
- Patent number 8,443,172
- Issue date May 14, 2013
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
Information Patent Grant
Instruction extraction through prefix accumulation
- Patent number 8,438,367
- Issue date May 7, 2013
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Early release of cache data with start/end marks when instructions...
- Patent number 8,335,910
- Issue date Dec 18, 2012
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Out-of-order microprocessor with separate branch information circul...
- Patent number 8,281,110
- Issue date Oct 2, 2012
- Via Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Variable group associativity branch target address cache delivering...
- Patent number 7,707,397
- Issue date Apr 27, 2010
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for selectively overriding return stack predic...
- Patent number 7,631,172
- Issue date Dec 8, 2009
- IP First, LLC
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for target address replacement in speculative...
- Patent number 7,398,377
- Issue date Jul 8, 2008
- IP First, LLC
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for selectively overriding return stack predic...
- Patent number 7,237,098
- Issue date Jun 26, 2007
- IP First, LLC
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for handling BTAC branches that wrap across in...
- Patent number 7,234,045
- Issue date Jun 19, 2007
- IP First, LLC
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for handling BTAC branches that wrap across in...
- Patent number 7,203,824
- Issue date Apr 10, 2007
- IP First, LLC
- Brent Bean
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for speculatively performing a return instruct...
- Patent number 7,200,740
- Issue date Apr 3, 2007
- IP First, LLC
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for resolving deadlock fetch conditions involv...
- Patent number 7,185,186
- Issue date Feb 27, 2007
- IP First, LLC
- Thomas McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for correcting an internal call/return stack i...
- Patent number 7,178,010
- Issue date Feb 13, 2007
- IP First, LLC
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Speculative branch target address cache with selective override by...
- Patent number 7,165,169
- Issue date Jan 16, 2007
- IP First, LLC
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Microprocessor with branch target address cache update queue
- Patent number 7,165,168
- Issue date Jan 16, 2007
- IP First, LLC
- Thomas McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Apparatus and method for densely packing a branch instruction predi...
- Patent number 7,162,619
- Issue date Jan 9, 2007
- IP First, LLC
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
SIDE CACHE ARRAY FOR GREATER FETCH BANDWIDTH
- Publication number 20220156197
- Publication date May 19, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SPECTRE FIXES WITH PREDICTOR MODE TAG
- Publication number 20220156379
- Publication date May 19, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SMALL BRANCH PREDICTOR ESCAPE
- Publication number 20220147360
- Publication date May 12, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
BRANCH DENSITY DETECTION FOR PREFETCHER
- Publication number 20220137974
- Publication date May 5, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DUAL BRANCH EXECUTE AND TABLE UPDATE
- Publication number 20220129277
- Publication date Apr 28, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DUAL BRANCH FORMAT
- Publication number 20220129278
- Publication date Apr 28, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
QUICK PREDICTOR OVERRIDE
- Publication number 20220121446
- Publication date Apr 21, 2022
- CENTAUR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EFFICIENT BRANCH TARGET ADDRESS CACHE ENTRY REPLACEMENT
- Publication number 20110055529
- Publication date Mar 3, 2011
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
OUT-OF-ORDER EXECUTION IN-ORDER RETIRE MICROPROCESSOR WITH BRANCH I...
- Publication number 20110016292
- Publication date Jan 20, 2011
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
INSTRUCTION EXTRACTION THROUGH PREFIX ACCUMULATION
- Publication number 20100299501
- Publication date Nov 25, 2010
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MARKING START AND END BYTES OF INSTRUCTION...
- Publication number 20100299503
- Publication date Nov 25, 2010
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY DETERMINING INSTRUCTION LENGTH WITHIN A S...
- Publication number 20100299497
- Publication date Nov 25, 2010
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- John L. Duncan
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
EARLY RELEASE OF CACHE DATA WITH START/END MARKS WHEN INSTRUCTIONS...
- Publication number 20100299483
- Publication date Nov 25, 2010
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PREFIX ACCUMULATION FOR EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF INSTRUCTIONS WITH M...
- Publication number 20100299500
- Publication date Nov 25, 2010
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
BAD BRANCH PREDICTION DETECTION, MARKING, AND ACCUMULATION FOR FAST...
- Publication number 20100299502
- Publication date Nov 25, 2010
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY OVERRIDING RETURN STACK PREDIC...
- Publication number 20070083741
- Publication date Apr 12, 2007
- IP-First, LLC
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Apparatus and method for handling BTAC branches that wrap across in...
- Publication number 20060010310
- Publication date Jan 12, 2006
- IP-First, LLC
- Brent Bean
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Variable group associativity branch target address cache delivering...
- Publication number 20050268076
- Publication date Dec 1, 2005
- VIA Technologies, Inc.
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Processor including fallback branch prediction mechanism for far ju...
- Publication number 20050210224
- Publication date Sep 22, 2005
- IP-First LLC
- Gerard M. Col
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Apparatus and method for handling BTAC branches that wrap across in...
- Publication number 20050198479
- Publication date Sep 8, 2005
- IP First LLC
- Brent Bean
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Apparatus and method for densely packing a branch instruction predi...
- Publication number 20050198481
- Publication date Sep 8, 2005
- IP First LLC
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Processor including branch prediction mechanism for far jump and fa...
- Publication number 20050144427
- Publication date Jun 30, 2005
- IP First LLC
- Gerard M. Col
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Speculative hybrid branch direction predictor
- Publication number 20050132175
- Publication date Jun 16, 2005
- IP-First, LLC
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Apparatus and method for target address replacement in speculative...
- Publication number 20050114636
- Publication date May 26, 2005
- IP-First, LLC
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Apparatus and method for selectively overriding return stack predic...
- Publication number 20050076193
- Publication date Apr 7, 2005
- IP-First, LLC
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Apparatus and method for selectively accessing disparate instructio...
- Publication number 20050044343
- Publication date Feb 24, 2005
- IP-First, LLC
- G. Glenn Henry
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Apparatus and method for invalidation of redundant branch target ad...
- Publication number 20040143709
- Publication date Jul 22, 2004
- IP-First, LLC
- Thomas McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Method and apparatus for correcting an internal call/return stack i...
- Publication number 20040143727
- Publication date Jul 22, 2004
- IP-First, LLC
- Thomas C. McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Apparatus and method for efficiently updating branch target address...
- Publication number 20040139281
- Publication date Jul 15, 2004
- IP-First, LLC
- Thomas McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Apparatus and method for resolving deadlock fetch conditions involv...
- Publication number 20040139292
- Publication date Jul 15, 2004
- IP-First, LLC
- Thomas McDonald
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Thomas C. McDonald

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Quick predictor override and update by a BTAC

Spectre fixes with predictor mode tag

Small branch predictor escape

Branch density detection for prefetcher

Dual branch execute and table update with single port

Dual branch format

Side cache array for greater fetch bandwidth

Adjustable write policies controlled by feature control registers

Speculative branch pattern update

Prefix accumulation for efficient processing of instructions with m...

Efficient branch target address cache entry replacement

Apparatus and method for marking start and end bytes of instruction...

Apparatus for efficiently determining instruction length instructio...

Bad branch prediction detection, marking, and accumulation for fast...

Apparatus and method for marking start and end bytes of instruction...

Instruction extraction through prefix accumulation

Early release of cache data with start/end marks when instructions...

Out-of-order microprocessor with separate branch information circul...

Variable group associativity branch target address cache delivering...

Apparatus and method for selectively overriding return stack predic...

Apparatus and method for target address replacement in speculative...

Apparatus and method for selectively overriding return stack predic...

Apparatus and method for handling BTAC branches that wrap across in...

Apparatus and method for handling BTAC branches that wrap across in...

Apparatus and method for speculatively performing a return instruct...

Apparatus and method for resolving deadlock fetch conditions involv...

Method and apparatus for correcting an internal call/return stack i...

Speculative branch target address cache with selective override by...

Microprocessor with branch target address cache update queue

Apparatus and method for densely packing a branch instruction predi...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

SIDE CACHE ARRAY FOR GREATER FETCH BANDWIDTH

SPECTRE FIXES WITH PREDICTOR MODE TAG

SMALL BRANCH PREDICTOR ESCAPE

BRANCH DENSITY DETECTION FOR PREFETCHER

DUAL BRANCH EXECUTE AND TABLE UPDATE

DUAL BRANCH FORMAT

QUICK PREDICTOR OVERRIDE

EFFICIENT BRANCH TARGET ADDRESS CACHE ENTRY REPLACEMENT

OUT-OF-ORDER EXECUTION IN-ORDER RETIRE MICROPROCESSOR WITH BRANCH I...

INSTRUCTION EXTRACTION THROUGH PREFIX ACCUMULATION

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MARKING START AND END BYTES OF INSTRUCTION...

APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENTLY DETERMINING INSTRUCTION LENGTH WITHIN A S...

EARLY RELEASE OF CACHE DATA WITH START/END MARKS WHEN INSTRUCTIONS...

PREFIX ACCUMULATION FOR EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF INSTRUCTIONS WITH M...

BAD BRANCH PREDICTION DETECTION, MARKING, AND ACCUMULATION FOR FAST...

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY OVERRIDING RETURN STACK PREDIC...

Apparatus and method for handling BTAC branches that wrap across in...

Variable group associativity branch target address cache delivering...

Processor including fallback branch prediction mechanism for far ju...

Apparatus and method for handling BTAC branches that wrap across in...

Apparatus and method for densely packing a branch instruction predi...

Processor including branch prediction mechanism for far jump and fa...

Speculative hybrid branch direction predictor

Apparatus and method for target address replacement in speculative...

Apparatus and method for selectively overriding return stack predic...

Apparatus and method for selectively accessing disparate instructio...

Apparatus and method for invalidation of redundant branch target ad...

Method and apparatus for correcting an internal call/return stack i...

Apparatus and method for efficiently updating branch target address...

Apparatus and method for resolving deadlock fetch conditions involv...