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Patent No.:

US 6925553 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2005

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2003
Applicants:

Patrice Roussel, Portland, OR (US);

Glenn J. Hinton, Portland, OR (US);

Shreekant S. Thakkar, Portland, OR (US);

Brent R. Boswell, Beaverton, OR (US);

Karol F. Menezes, Portland, OR (US);

Inventors:

Patrice Roussel, Portland, OR (US);

Glenn J. Hinton, Portland, OR (US);

Shreekant S. Thakkar, Portland, OR (US);

Brent R. Boswell, Beaverton, OR (US);

Karol F. Menezes, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F009/302 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus are disclosed for staggering execution of an instruction. According to one embodiment of the invention, a macro instruction specifying an operation, and specifying a first and a second data operand in first and second registers, respectively, is received. The macro instruction is then split into a first micro instruction and a second micro instruction, the first micro instruction specifying the operation on a first corresponding segment including a first portion of the first data operand and a first portion of the second data operand, and the second micro instruction specifying the operation on a second corresponding segment including a second portion of the first data operand and a second portion of the second data operand. The first and second micro instructions are then executed.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Roussel, Patrice. (2005). Staggering execution of a single packed data instruction using the same circuit (U.S. Patent No. 6925553). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6925553

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