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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2022
Applicant:
Graphcore Limited, Bristol, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
GRAPHCORE LIMITED, Bristol, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 9/30036 (2013.01); G06F 9/30109 (2013.01);
Abstract
A new type of instruction and a control register for the new type of instruction are provided to handle data that may be misaligned in memory. A first part of data (which may be misaligned in memory) is loaded into a first set of registers by loading a first atom containing the first part of data into registers. The pack instruction is executed by an execution unit to place part of data (whose length and starting position are indicated by second and third values in a control register) from one set of registers into an identified location (identified by a first value in the control register) in another set of registers.