A pipelined or superscalar processor (10) that executes operations utilizing operand data of variable bit widths improves parallel performance by partitioning a fixed bit width operand (200) into several partial operand fields (215, 216 and 217), and checking for data dependencies,...http://www.google.de/patents/US5737629?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5737629 - Dependency checking and forwarding of variable width operands
