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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2009
Jack Kang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jianwei Bei, Rockville, MD (US);
Shanker Rao Donthineni, Germantown, MD (US);
Manish Kumar, Clarksburg, MD (US);
Victor Lin, Fremont, CA (US);
Justin Lau, Daly City, CA (US);
Jack Kang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jianwei Bei, Rockville, MD (US);
Shanker Rao Donthineni, Germantown, MD (US);
Manish Kumar, Clarksburg, MD (US);
Victor Lin, Fremont, CA (US);
Justin Lau, Daly City, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A hardware module configured to perform single instructions faster than is possible in software running on the microprocessor. In one implementation, the hardware module is configured to perform a single count instruction, including - counting a number of 'ones' contained in a first register; and storing, in a second register, the count of the number of 'ones' contained in the first register.