Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Processing control
Reexamination Certificate
2011-07-12
2011-07-12
Kindred, Alford W (Department: 2181)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing
Processing control
C712S226000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07979679
ABSTRACT:
A computer system is disclosed capable of conditionally carrying out an operation defined in a computer instruction. The computer instruction is implemented on so-called packed operands, that is operands containing a plurality of packed objects in respective lanes. An operation defined in the computer instruction is conditionally carried out in dependence on stored condition values which determine for each lane whether or not the operation is to be executed on objects in that lane.An execution unit for a computer system, a computer system and a method of executing instructions are defined.
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Broadcom Corporation
Geib Benjamin P
Kindred Alford W
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC
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