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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jack H. Choquette, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
SandCraft, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/582 ; G06F 7/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/582 ; G06F 7/38 ;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for implementing mixed scalar and vector values in a digital processing system. In one embodiment, a digital processing system, which contains processing unit and memories, is capable of identifying a first data in a first scalar register and a second data in a vector register. Upon fetching the first data as a first operand and the second data as a second operand, the processing unit performs an operation between the first and second operands in response to an operator. After operations, the result is subsequently stored in a second scalar register.