The present invention intends to provide an instruction prefetching apparatus capable of reducing a delay caused by branch prediction error by prefetching instruction based on a condition of a conditional branch instruction if the condition is already determined at the prefetching of the branch instruction....http://www.google.de/patents/US6119221?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6119221 - Instruction prefetching apparatus and instruction prefetching method for processing in a processor
