Intel Corporation

Mark Charney

Robert Valentine

Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall

Jesus Corbal

Venkateswara Rao Madduri

Bret L Toll

Edward Thomas Grochowski

Alexander F Heinecke

Milind Baburao Girkar

Robert Dale Cavin

Dipankar Das

Andrew Thomas Forsyth

Dennis Ryan Bradford

Jonathan Cannon Hall

Suleyman Sair

Seth Abraham

Charles R Yount

Jesus Corbal San Adrian

Sridhar Samudrala

Binwei Yang

Jeffrey G Wiedemeier

James Charles Abel

Lisa K Wu

Roger Espasa Sans

Santiago Galan Duran

An apparatus and method for performing multiply-accumulate operations. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a decoder to decode instructions; a first source register to store a first plurality of packed bytes; a second source register to store a second plurality of packed bytes; a third source register to store a plurality of packed doublewords; execution circuitry to execute a first instruction, the execution circuitry comprising: extension circuitry to sign-extend or zero-extend the first and second plurality of packed bytes to generate a first and second plurality of words corresponding to the first and second plurality of packed bytes; multiplier circuitry to multiply each of the first plurality of words with a corresponding one of the second plurality of words to generate a plurality of temporary products; adder circuitry to add at least a first set of the temporary products to generate a first temporary sum; accumulation circuitry to combine the first temporary sum with a first packed doubleword value from a first doubleword location in the third source register to generate a first accumulated doubleword result; a destination register to store the first accumulated doubleword result in the first doubleword location.

Apparatus and method for vector multiply and accumulate of packed bytes

An apparatus and method for multiplying packed real and imaginary components of complex numbers are described. A processor embodiment includes: a decoder to decode a first instruction to generate a decoded instruction; a first source register to store a first plurality of packed real and imaginary data elements; a second source register to store a second plurality of packed real and imaginary data elements; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction. The execution circuitry includes: multiplier circuitry to select real and imaginary data elements in the first source register and second source, multiply each selected imaginary data element in the first source register with a selected real data element in the second source register, and multiply each selected real data element in the first source register with a selected imaginary data element in the second source register to generate a plurality of imaginary products; adder circuitry to add a first subset of the plurality of imaginary products and subtract a second subset of the plurality of imaginary products to generate a first temporary result, and to add a third subset of the plurality of imaginary products and subtract a fourth subset of the plurality of imaginary products to generate a second temporary result; and accumulation circuitry to combine the first temporary result with first data from a destination register to generate a first final result, combine the second temporary result with second data from the destination register to generate a second final result, and store the first final result and second final result back in the destination register.

Apparatus and method for complex by complex conjugate multiplication

A vector friendly instruction format and execution thereof. According to one embodiment of the invention, a processor is configured to execute an instruction set. The instruction set includes a vector friendly instruction format. The vector friendly instruction format has a plurality of fields including a base operation field, a modifier field, an augmentation operation field, and a data element width field, wherein the first instruction format supports different versions of base operations and different augmentation operations through placement of different values in the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field, and wherein only one of the different values may be placed in each of the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field on each occurrence of an instruction in the first instruction format in instruction streams.

Vector friendly instruction format and execution thereof

An apparatus and method for performing dual concurrent multiplications, subtraction/addition, and accumulation of packed data elements. For example one embodiment of a processor comprises: a decoder to decode an instruction to generate a decoded instruction; a first source register to store first and second packed data elements; a second source register to store third and fourth packed data elements; execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction, the execution circuitry comprising: multiplier circuitry to multiply the first and third packed data elements to generate a first temporary product and to concurrently multiply the second and fourth packed data elements to generate a second temporary product, the first through fourth packed data elements all being a first width; circuitry to negate the first temporary product to generate a negated first product; adder circuitry to add the first negated product to a first accumulated packed data element from a third source register to generate a first result, the first result being a second width which is at least twice as large as the first width; the adder circuitry to concurrently add the second temporary product to a second accumulated packed data element to generate a second result of the second width; the first and second results to be stored in specified first and second data element positions within a destination register.

Apparatus and method for multiply, add/subtract, and accumulate of packed data elements

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