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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2011
Elmoustapha Ould-ahmed-vall, Chandler, AZ (US);
Robert Valentine, Kiryat Tivon, IL;
Tal Uliel, Tel Aviv, IL;
Jesus Corbal, Barcelona, ES;
Zeev Sperber, Zichron Yackov, IL;
Amit Gradstein, Binyamina, IL;
Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Chandler, AZ (US);
Robert Valentine, Kiryat Tivon, IL;
Tal Uliel, Tel Aviv, IL;
Jesus Corbal, Barcelona, ES;
Zeev Sperber, Zichron Yackov, IL;
Amit Gradstein, Binyamina, IL;
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are described for down-converting from a source operand to a destination operand with masking. For example, a method according to one embodiment includes the following operations: reading a source operand value to be down-converted from a first value to a down-converted value and stored in a destination location; reading each mask register bit stored in a mask register, the mask register bit(s) indicating whether to perform a masking operation or a conversion operation on the source operand value; if the mask register bit(s) indicates that a masking operation is to be performed, then performing a specified masking operation and storing the results of the masking operation in the destination location; and if the mask register bit indicates that a masking operation is not to be performed, then down-converting the source operand value and storing the down-converted value in the specified destination location.