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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2003
Eric Debes, Santa Clara, CA (US);
William W. Macy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jonathan J. Tyler, Austin, TX (US);
James Coke, Shingle Springs, CA (US);
Frank Binns, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Scott Rodgers, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Peter Ruscito, Folsom, CA (US);
Bret Toll, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Vesselin Naydenov, Folsom, CA (US);
Masood Tahir, Orangevale, CA (US);
David Jackson, Folsom, CA (US);
Eric Debes, Santa Clara, CA (US);
William W. Macy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jonathan J. Tyler, Austin, TX (US);
James Coke, Shingle Springs, CA (US);
Frank Binns, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Scott Rodgers, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Peter Ruscito, Folsom, CA (US);
Bret Toll, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Vesselin Naydenov, Folsom, CA (US);
Masood Tahir, Orangevale, CA (US);
David Jackson, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for including in a processor instructions for performing multiply-add operations on packed byte data. In one embodiment, a processor is coupled to a memory. The memory has stored therein a first packed byte data and a second packed byte data. The processor performs operations on data elements in said first packed byte data and said second packed byte data to generate a third packed data in response to receiving an instruction. A plurality of the data elements in this third packed data storing the result of performing multiply-add operations on data elements in the first and second packed byte data.