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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2011
Jesus Corbal, Barcelona, ES;
Andrew T. Forsyth, Kirkland, WA (US);
Roger Espasa, Barcelona, ES;
Manel Fernandez, Barcelona, ES;
Thomas D. Fletcher, Sherwood, OR (US);
Jesus Corbal, Barcelona, ES;
Andrew T. Forsyth, Kirkland, WA (US);
Roger Espasa, Barcelona, ES;
Manel Fernandez, Barcelona, ES;
Thomas D. Fletcher, Sherwood, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of processing an instruction is described that includes fetching and decoding the instruction. The instruction has separate destination address, first operand source address and second operand source address components. The first operand source address identifies a location of a first mask pattern in mask register space. The second operand source address identifies a location of a second mask pattern in the mask register space. The method further includes fetching the first mask pattern from the mask register space; fetching the second mask pattern from the mask register space; merging the first and second mask patterns into a merged mask pattern; and, storing the merged mask pattern at a storage location identified by the destination address.