Optimum Semiconductor Technologies Inc.

Paul Hurtley

Mayan Moudgill

C John Glossner

Gary J Nacer

Murugappan Senthilvelan

Pablo Balzola

Arthur Joseph Hoane

A Joseph Hoane

Vitaly Kalashnikov

Sitij Agrawal

Lei Wang

Aaron G Milbury

Enrique A Barria

Vaidyanathan Thevangudi Ramadurai

A computer processor comprising a vector unit is disclosed. The vector unit may comprise a vector register file comprising at least one register to hold a varying number of elements. The vector unit may further comprise a vector length register file comprising at least one register to specify the number of operations of a vector instruction to be performed on the varying number of elements in the at least one register of the vector register file. The computer processor may be implemented as a monolithic integrated circuit.

Monolithic vector processor configured to operate on variable length vectors using a vector length register

A computer processor may include a plurality of hardware threads. The computer processor may further include state processor logic for a state of a hardware thread. The state processor logic may include per thread logic that contains state that is replicated in each hardware thread of the plurality of hardware threads and common logic that is independent of each hardware thread of the plurality of hardware threads. The computer processor may further include single threaded mode logic to execute instructions in a single threaded mode from only one hardware thread of the plurality of hardware threads. The computer processor may further include second mode logic to execute instructions in a second mode from more than one hardware thread of the plurality of hardware threads simultaneously. The computer processor may further include switching mode logic to switch between the first mode and the second mode.

Processor with mode support

A computer processor is disclosed. The computer processor may comprises a vector unit comprising a vector register file comprising at least one register to hold a varying number of elements. The computer processor may further comprise processing logic configured to operate on the varying number of elements in the vector register file using one or more instructions that produce results with elements of widths different than that of the input elements. The computer processor may be implemented as a monolithic integrated circuit.

Vector processor configured to operate on variable length vectors using instructions that change element widths

A processor includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) comprising a plurality of ways, wherein each way is associated with a respective page size, and a processing core, communicatively coupled to the TLB, to execute an instruction associated with a virtual memory page, identify a first way of the plurality of ways, wherein the first way is associated with a first page size, determine an index value using the virtual memory page and the first page size for the first way, determine, using the index value, a first TLB entry of the first way, and translate, using a memory address translation stored in the first TLB entry, the first virtual memory page to a first physical memory page.

Variable translation-lookaside buffer (TLB) indexing

A computer processor with an address register file is disclosed. The computer processor may include a memory. The computer processor may further include a general purpose register file comprising at least one general purpose register. The computer processor may further include an address register file comprising at least one address register. The computer processor may further include having access to the memory, the general purpose register file, and the address register file. The processing logic may execute a memory access instruction that accesses one or more memory locations in the memory at one or more corresponding addresses computed by retrieving the value of an address register of the at least one register of the address register file specified in the instruction and adding a displacement value encoded in the instruction.

Computer processor with address register file

A computer processor is disclosed. The computer processor comprises a vector unit comprising a vector register file comprising one or more registers to hold a varying number of elements. The computer processor further comprises processing logic configured to operate on the varying number of elements in the vector register file using one or more digital signal processing instructions. The computer processor may be implemented as a monolithic integrated circuit.

Vector processor configured to operate on variable length vectors using digital signal processing instructions

A computer processor is disclosed. The computer processor comprises one or more processor resources. The computer processor further comprises a plurality of hardware thread units coupled to the one or more processor resources. The computer processor may be configured to permit simultaneous access to the one or more processor resources by only a subset of hardware thread units of the plurality of hardware thread units. The number of hardware threads in the subset may be less than the total number of hardware threads of the plurality of hardware thread units.

Vector processor configured to operate on variable length vectors with asymmetric multi-threading

A computer processor that implements pre-translation of virtual addresses is disclosed. The computer processor may include a register file comprising one or more registers. The computer processor may include processing logic. The processing logic may receive a value to store in a register of one or more registers. The processing logic may store the value in the register. The processing logic may designate the received value as a virtual address, the virtual address having a corresponding virtual base page number. The processing logic may translate the virtual base page number to a corresponding real base page number and zero or more real page numbers corresponding to zero or more virtual page numbers adjacent to the virtual base page number. The processing logic may further store in the register of the one or more registers the real base page number and the zero or more real page numbers.

Computer processor that implements pre-translation of virtual addresses

A computer processor is disclosed. The computer processor may comprise a vector unit comprising a vector register file comprising one or more registers to hold a varying number of elements. The computer processor may further comprise processing logic configured to implicitly type each of the varying number of elements in the vector register file. The computer processor may be implemented as a monolithic integrated circuit.

Vector processor configured to operate on variable length vectors using implicitly typed instructions

A computer processor with register direct branches and employing an instruction preload structure is disclosed. The computer processor may include a hierarchy of memories comprising a first memory organized in a structure having one or more entries for one or more addresses corresponding to one or more instructions. The one or more entries of the one or more addresses may have a starting address. The structure may have one or more locations for storing the one or more instructions. The computer processor may include one or more registers to which one or more corresponding instruction addresses are writable. The computer processor may include processing logic. In response to the processing logic writing the one or more instruction addresses to the one or more registers, the processing logic may to pre-fetch the one or more instructions of a linear sequence of instructions from a first memory level of the hierarchy of memories into a second memory level of the hierarchy of memories beginning at the starting address. At least one address of the one or more addresses may be the contents of a register of the one or more registers.

Computer processor with register direct branches and employing an instruction preload structure

A computer processor is disclosed. The computer processor may comprise a vector unit comprising a vector register file comprising at least one register to hold a varying number of elements. The computer processor may further comprise processing logic configured to operate on the varying number of elements in the vector register file using one or more instructions that separate a vector or combine two vectors. The computer processor may be implemented as a monolithic integrated circuit.

Vector processor configured to operate on variable length vectors using instructions to combine and split vectors

A computer processor that implements pre-translation of virtual addresses with target registers is disclosed. The computer processor may include a register file comprising one or more registers. The computer processor may include processing logic. The processing logic may receive a value to store in a register of one or more registers. The processing logic may store the value in the register. The processing logic may designate the received value as a virtual instruction address, the virtual instruction address having a corresponding virtual base page number. The processing logic may translate the virtual base page number to a corresponding real base page number and zero or more real page numbers corresponding to zero or more virtual page numbers adjacent to the virtual base page number. The processing logic may further store in the register of the one or more registers the real base page number and the zero or more real page numbers.

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