A circuit and method for simultaneously steering multiple aligned macroinstructions from an instruction buffer to a decoder that receives and decodes multiple macroinstructions in parallel. A first macroinstruction is supplied to a first decoder by steering a first predetermined number of bytes following...http://www.google.de/patents/US5586277?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5586277 - Method for parallel steering of fixed length fields containing a variable length instruction from an instruction buffer to parallel decoders