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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
John William Phillips, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Rahul Saxena, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
712 22 ; 712221 ; 708232 ; 708534 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a method and apparatus for reporting exception in a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processor in computing an arithmetic function for a plurality of argument data. The SIMD processor is configured for processing N elements simultaneously. A sequence of instructions is re-arranged to allocate the plurality of argument data in the N elements. The N elements are processed simultaneously. The exceptions for N elements are detected simultaneously. The detected exceptions are then combined to generate a global exception.