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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2009
Filed:
May. 14, 2004
Derrick Chu Lin, Foster City, CA (US);
Punit Minocha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alexander D. Peleg, Haifa, IL;
Yaakov Yaari, Haifa, IL;
Millind Mittal, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Larry M. Mennemeier, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Benny Eitan, Haifa, IL;
Srinivas Chennupaty, Portland, OR (US);
Derrick Chu Lin, Foster City, CA (US);
Punit Minocha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Alexander D. Peleg, Haifa, IL;
Yaakov Yaari, Haifa, IL;
Millind Mittal, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Larry M. Mennemeier, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Benny Eitan, Haifa, IL;
Srinivas Chennupaty, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for performing a shift operation on packed data elements having multiple values. One embodiment includes accessing the shift control signal of a first format from a memory. The shift control signal identifyies a first packed shift operation and whether the shift positions are byte positions or bit positions, and causes a processor to execute a set of control signals of a second format, thereby accessing the packed data, shifting the packed data by the number of shift positions according to the first packed shift operation, generating a first replacement data for one of the number of positions, and producing a shifted first packed data comprising the first replacement data.