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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2023
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for efficient element-wise and cross-vector maximum operations. One example system includes an input bus, an output bus, and a memory configured to store N/K elements of an N-element vector in a corresponding row of the memory. A K-wide FMAX( ) comparator has a first set of K-wide inputs of the K-wide FMAX( ) comparator coupled to a read port of the memory and a second set of K-wide inputs of the K-wide FMAX( ) comparator coupled to the input bus, and a set of K-wide outputs of the K-wide FMAX( ) comparator coupled to a write port of the memory. A tree of FMAX( ) comparators comprises an input and an output, the input of the tree coupled to the set of K-wide outputs of the K-wide FMAX( ) comparator and the output of the tree coupled to the output bus.