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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
May. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Inventors:
Boris Lerner, Sharon, MA (US);
John L. Redford, Arlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/1657 (2013.01); G06F 9/52 (2013.01); G06F 13/1663 (2013.01);
Abstract
Certain example embodiments of the present disclosure can provide a parallelized atomic increment. A vgather instruction returns to a plurality of processing elements the value of a memory location. A vgather_hit instruction returns to a function of the number of 'hits' to the memory location. In one embodiment, the function is unity. In another embodiment, the function is the number of hits having an ordinal designation less than or equal to the processing element receiving the return value.