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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Seoul National University R&db Foundation, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Seoul Electronics University R&DB Foundation, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus for processing an invalid operation in a prologue and/or an epilogue of a loop includes a register file including a first region for storing a data validity value indicating whether data is valid or invalid, and a second region for storing the data; and a functional unit configured to determine whether an operation is valid or invalid based on a value of a first region of each of one or more input sources received from the register file, and output a destination including a value based on the value of the first region of each of the input sources.