Method and apparatus for management of control flow in a SIMD device
US7428628B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 23, 2004 |
| Grant date | Sep 23, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 4, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F15/8015
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A single instruction multiple data processing device includes a plurality of processing elements. Each processing element includes an execute mask count register storing a plurality of bits. The writing updated data to registers in each processing element is enabled and disabled in dependence on the multi bit data stored in the execute mask count register.
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