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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2018
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Amrit Panda, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Rotenberg, Raleigh, NC (US);
Hadi Parandeh Afshar, San Diego, CA (US);
Gregory Michael Wright, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Enabling parallel memory accesses by providing explicit affine instructions in vector-processor-based devices is disclosed. In this regard, a vector-processor-based device implementing a block-based dataflow instruction set architecture (ISA) includes a decoder circuit configured to provide an affine instruction that specifies a base parameter indicating a base value B, a stride parameter indicating a stride interval value S, and a count parameter indicating a count value C. The decoder circuit of the vector-processor-based device decodes the affine instruction, and generates an output stream comprising one or more output values, wherein a count of the output values of the output stream equals the count value C. Using an index X where 0≤X<C, each Xoutput value in the output stream is generated as a sum of the base value B and a product of the stride interval value S and the index X.