US 11,669,328 B2
Method and system for converting instructions
Weilin Wang, Beijing (CN); Mengchen Yang, Beijing (CN); and Yingbing Guan, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD., Shanghai (CN)
Filed by Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Shanghai (CN)
Filed on Sep. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/471,343.
Claims priority of application No. 202011589763.6 (CN), filed on Dec. 29, 2020; and application No. 202011591546.0 (CN), filed on Dec. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0206812 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 9/30149 (2013.01) [G06F 9/3017 (2013.01); G06F 9/30047 (2013.01); G06F 9/30101 (2013.01); G06F 9/45516 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for converting instructions, used in a processor, comprising:
receiving an instruction, wherein the instruction is an unknown instruction, wherein the unknown instruction is an instruction not natively supported by the processor;
determining whether the received instruction is a new instruction, wherein the new instruction is an instruction newly supported by a subsequent-generation of the processor; and
converting the received instruction into at least one old instruction when the received instruction is a new instruction.