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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 1999
Filed:
May. 17, 1996
Nathan Mackenzie Sidwell, St. Werburghs, GB;
Catherine Louise Barnaby, Coalpit Health, GB;
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Limited, Almondsbury, GB;
Abstract
A method of effecting a matrix transpose operation in a computer is described. The method uses a computer instruction which restructures a data string by retaining first and last sub-strings of the data string in unchanged positions and interchanges the position of at least two intermediate sub-strings. The data string is formed from sub-strings each representing one or more data value in a matrix. The computer instruction can be effected in a single register store having a predetermined bit capacity addressable by a single address, or in a pair of such register stores. The data restructuring instructions include 'flip', 'zip' and 'unzip' instructions.