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Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2023
Applicant:

Sifive, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bradley Gene Burgess, Sunset Valley, TX (US);

David Kravitz, Cambridge, MA (US);

Alexandre Solomatnikov, San Carlos, CA (US);

Assignee:

SiFive, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30036 (2013.01); G06F 9/30043 (2013.01); G06F 9/3012 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for transferring data between a memory system and a vector register file. For example, a system may include a vector pipeline including a vector physical register file; a load store unit; one or more pipeline stages configured to decode a vector memory instruction to obtain a macro-operation and dispatch the macro-operation to both the load store unit and the vector pipeline, and a baler circuitry, including a buffer with entries. The vector pipeline is configured to crack the macro-operation into multiple micro-operations. The baler circuitry is configured to implement the multiple micro-operations to transfer data between one or more selected entries of the buffer and respective registers of the vector physical register file. The load store unit is configured to implement the macro-operation to transfer data between one or more addresses in a memory system and the one or more selected entries of the buffer.


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