Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Specific memory composition
Reexamination Certificate
2007-06-19
2007-06-19
Bataille, Pierre (Department: 2186)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Specific memory composition
C711S131000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10027359
ABSTRACT:
Various embodiments of systems and methods for performing accumulation operations on block operands are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a memory, a functional unit that performs an operation on block operands, and a cache accumulator. The cache accumulator is configured to provide a block operand to the functional unit and to store the block result generated by the functional unit. The cache accumulator is configured to provide the block operand to the functional unit in response to an instruction that uses an address in the memory to identify the block operand. Thus, the cache accumulator behaves as both a cache and an accumulator.
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Bataille Pierre
Kowert Robert C.
Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel P.c.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Tsai Sheng-Jen
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