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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2008
Applicants:
Richard J. Selvaggi, Doylestown, PA (US);
Larry A. Pearlstein, Newtown, PA (US);
Inventors:
Richard J. Selvaggi, Doylestown, PA (US);
Larry A. Pearlstein, Newtown, PA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/305 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A SIMD processor responds to a single min/max instruction to find the minimum or maximum valued data unit in an array of data units. The determined minimum/maximum value and an associated index value thereto may be output. Alternatively, the value of a data unit in another array may be output at a corresponding location. A further single instruction executable by the SIMD processor, may be applied to results obtained using such a single min/max instruction, to allow such instructions to operate on two dimensional arrays.