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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2012
Ching-yu Hung, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Shinri Inamori, Kawasaki, JP;
Jagadeesh Sankaran, Allen, TX (US);
Peter Chang, Colleyville, TX (US);
Ching-Yu Hung, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Shinri Inamori, Kawasaki, JP;
Jagadeesh Sankaran, Allen, TX (US);
Peter Chang, Colleyville, TX (US);
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A vector processor includes a plurality of execution units arranged in parallel, a register file, and a plurality of load units. The register file includes a plurality of registers coupled to the execution units. Each of the load units is configured to load, in a single transaction, a plurality of the registers with data retrieved from memory. The loaded registers corresponding to different execution units. Each of the load units is configured to distribute the data to the registers in accordance with an instruction selectable distribution. The instruction selectable distribution specifies one of plurality of distributions. Each of the distributions specifies a data sequence that differs from the sequence in which the data is stored in memory.