Monolithic vector processor configured to operate on variable length vectors using a vector length register

US11544214B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Optimum Semiconductor Technologies Inc. · US

Inventors

• Mayan Moudgill · White Plains, US
• Gary J. Nacer · Morristown, US
• C. John Glossner · Nashua, US
• Arthur Joseph Hoane · Yonkers, US
• Paul Hurtley · White Plains, US
• Murugappan Senthilvelan · Carmel, US
• Pablo Balzola · Madrid, ES
• Vitaly Kalashnikov · Stamford, US
• Sitij Agrawal · Irvington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 12, 2015
• Grant date: Jan 3, 2023
• Expiry date: Apr 12, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F17/142
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer processor comprising a vector unit is disclosed. The vector unit may comprise a vector register file comprising at least one register to hold a varying number of elements. The vector unit may further comprise a vector length register file comprising at least one register to specify the number of operations of a vector instruction to be performed on the varying number of elements in the at least one register of the vector register file. The computer processor may be implemented as a monolithic integrated circuit.