Methods and apparatus for initiating and resynchronizing multi-cycle SIMD instructions
US7506137B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 16, 2007 |
| Grant date | Mar 17, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 30, 2027 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/3887
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques for adding more complex instructions and their attendant multi-cycle execution units with a single instruction multiple data stream (SIMD) very long instruction word (VLIW) processing framework are described. In one aspect, an initiation mechanism also acts as a resynchronization mechanism to read the results of multi-cycle execution. This multi-purpose mechanism operates with a short instruction word (SIW) issue of the multi-cycle instruction, in a sequence processor (SP) alone, with a VLIW, and across all processing elements (PEs) individually or as an array of PEs. A number of advantageous floating point instructions are also described.
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