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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Steven J. Battle, Austin, TX (US);
Maarten J. Boersma, Holzgerlingen, DE;
Niels Fricke, Herrenberg, DE;
Hung Q. Le, Austin, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Brian W. Thompto, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer system, processor, and method for processing information is disclosed. The system, processor and/or method includes at least one computer processor; a register file associated with the at least one processor, the register file having a plurality of entries for storing data where a whole entry has two halves, the register file having multiple ports to write data to the register file and multiple ports to read data from the register file; and one or more execution units associated with the register file, the execution units configured to read data from the register file and to write data to the register file, wherein the processor is configured to write either scalar data or vector data to a single register file entry.