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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1995
Jason Spielman, Austin, TX (US);
Yee-Wei Huang, Austin, TX (US);
Michael G Gallup, deceased, late of Austin, TX (US);
Robert W Seaton, Jr, Austin, TX (US);
L Rodney Goke, Austin, TX (US);
Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A 'vnmvh' instruction reduces a substantial number of instructions and the temporary use of a register in a software code which executes nested conditional constructs in a vector data processor (10). When the vnmvh instruction is executed, all processing elements in the vector data processor participate in the function regardless of a setting of a status bit (Vt bit) (FIG. 6). During execution of the vnmvh instruction, the least significant bits of vector register specified in an operand are negated and moved into a plurality of history bits (Vh bits) (FIG. 6). The functionality provided by execution of vnmvh instruction allows a user to execute a nested conditional construct efficiently and effectively.