The invention provides a system and method which can be used for pre-decoding one-byte instruction prefixes and branch instruction indicators. A static line detect generates a number of instruction indicators. Further, a prefix and branch decode unit combines at least two of the number of instruction...http://www.google.com/patents/US6496923?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6496923 - Length decode to detect one-byte prefixes and branch
