Intel Corporation

Santiago Galan

Jose Gonzalez

Roger Espasa

Julio Gago

Jesus Corbal

Yen-Kuang Chen

Joel S Emer

Victor W Lee

Jatin Chhugani

Mikhail Smelyanskiy

Ganesh Suryanarayan Dasika

Changkyu Kim

Federico Ardanaz

Roger Gramunt

Geoff Lowney

Toni Juan

Victor Moya Del Barrio

Isaac Hernandez

Some implementations disclosed herein provide techniques and arrangements for indicating a length of an instruction from an instruction set that has variable length instructions. A plurality of bytes that include an instruction may be read from an instruction cache based on a logical instruction pointer. A determination is made whether a first byte of the plurality of bytes identifies a length of the instruction. In response to detecting that the first byte of the plurality of bytes identifies the length of the instruction, the instruction is read from the plurality of bytes based on the length of the instruction.

Indicating a length of an instruction of a variable length instruction set

A region or group of pixels may be textured as a unit, using a range specifier and one or more anchor pixels to define the group. In some embodiments, processing grouped pixels improves efficiency.

Grouping pixels to be textured

A texture unit may be used to perform general purpose mathematical computations such as dot products. This enables some general purpose computations and operations to be offloaded from a central processing unit to the texture unit. The texture unit may use linear interpolators in order to perform the dot product calculations.

Texture unit for general purpose computing

In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a register file to store vector data, an address generator coupled to the register file to generate addresses for a vector memory operation, and a controller to generate an output slice from one or more slices each including multiple addresses, where the output slice includes addresses each corresponding to a separately addressable portion of a memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Implementing vector memory operations

A texture unit may be used utilized to perform general purpose mathematical computations such as dot products. This enables some general purpose computations and operations to be offloaded from a central processing unit to the texture unit. The texture unit may use linear interpolators in order to perform the dot product calculations.

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Molins de Rei, Spain

Santiago Galan