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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stephane Rossignol, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed for manipulating vectored data. The method includes shifting bits of packed data comprising M N-bit elements using a bit-level shift step followed by a byte-level shift step. A mask is generated and applied to the intermediate shifted result to produce the final result. A method is disclosed for conditionally transferring data from one general purpose register to another based on data in yet a third general purpose register.