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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Chandler, AZ (US);
Kshitij A. Doshi, Chandler, AZ (US);
Suleyman Sair, Chandler, AZ (US);
Charles R. Yount, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Instructions and logic provide vector horizontal majority voting functionality. Some embodiments, responsive to an instruction specifying: a destination operand, a size of the vector elements, a source operand, and a mask corresponding to a portion of the vector element data fields in the source operand; read a number of values from data fields of the specified size in the source operand, corresponding to the mask specified by the instruction and store a result value to that number of corresponding data fields in the destination operand, the result value computed from the majority of values read from the number of data fields of the source operand.