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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2017
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Neil Burgess, Cardiff, GB;
David Raymond Lutz, Austin, TX (US);
Javier Diaz Bruguera, Austin, TX (US);
ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
An apparatus has processing circuitry comprising an L×M multiplier array. An instruction decoder associated with the processing circuitry supports a multiply-and-accumulate-product (MAP) instruction for generating at least one result element corresponding to a sum of respective E×F products of E-bit and F-bit portions of J-bit and K-bit operands respectively, where 1<E<J≤L and 1<F<K≤M. In response to the MAP instruction, the instruction decoder controls the processing circuitry to rearrange F-bit portions of the second K-bit operand to form a transformed K-bit operand, and to control the L×M multiplier array in dependence on the first J-bit operand and the transformed K-bit operand to add the respective E×F products using a subset of the adders used for accumulating partial products for a conventional multiplication.