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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2007
Craig Hansen, Los Altos, CA (US);
John Moussouris, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alexia Massalin, San Jose, CA (US);
Craig Hansen, Los Altos, CA (US);
John Moussouris, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alexia Massalin, San Jose, CA (US);
Microunity Systems Engineering, Inc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and apparatuses are presented relating a programmable processor comprising an execution unit that is operable to decode and execute instructions received from an instruction path and partition data stored in registers in the register file into multiple data elements, the execution unit capable of executing group data handling operations that re-arrange data elements in different ways in response to data handling instructions, the execution unit further capable of executing a plurality of different group floating-point and group integer arithmetic operations that each arithmetically operates on the multiple data elements stored in registers in the register file to produce a catenated result that is returned to a register in the register file, wherein the catenated result comprises a plurality of individual results.