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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2021
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rajesh Sankaran, Portland, OR (US);
Gilbert Neiger, Portland, OR (US);
Vedvyas Shanbhogue, Austin, TX (US);
David Koufaty, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of an apparatus comprises decode circuitry to decode a single instruction, the single instruction to include a field for an identifier of a first source operand, a field for an identifier of a destination operand, and a field for an opcode, the opcode to indicate execution circuitry is to program a user timer, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode to retrieve timer program information from a location indicated by the first source operand, and program a user timer indicated by the destination operand based on the retrieved timer program information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.