ENCODING HARDWARE END LOOP INFORMATION INTO INSTRUCTION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and device for encoding information regarding a hardware loop of a set of packets.

SOLUTION: Each packet includes a plurality of instructions. The information regarding the hardware loop is encoded into one or more bits of at least one instruction in the set of packets. The information indicates whether or not a packet is an end packet of the loop. Information regarding two hardware loops is encoded. That is, information regarding a first loop is encoded into an instruction at a first predetermined position in each packet and information regarding a second loop is encoded into an instruction at a second predetermined position in each packet. End instruction information is encoded into an instruction not having encoded loop information at the same bit positions reserved for the encoded loop information. The end instruction information indicates whether or not the instruction is the last instruction of a packet and the length of a packet.

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