Copying of unaligned data in a pipelined operation

Details Copying of unaligned data in a pipelined operation Copying of unaligned data in a pipelined operation

2005-07-25

2008-10-07

Chan, Eddie P (Department: 2183)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing

Byte-word rearranging, bit-field insertion or extraction,...

C712S007000

Reexamination Certificate

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07434040

ABSTRACT:
Methods, computer readable media and computing devices including program instructions are provided for copying unaligned data. One method embodiment includes using 12 execution units to move 16 bytes of data from an unaligned data area to an aligned data area during each iteration of a loop in a pipelined operation, such that each iteration can be executed in one machine cycle.

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