Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Instruction decoding
Patent
1999-04-22
2000-11-28
Kim, Kenneth S.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing
Instruction decoding
712 22, 712 24, 712221, G06F 934
Patent
active
061548316
ABSTRACT:
A multimedia extension unit (MEU) is provided for performing various multimedia-type operations. The MEU can be coupled either through a coprocessor bus or a local CPU bus to a conventional processor. The MEU employs vector registers, a vector ALU, and an operand routing unit (ORU) to perform a maximum number of the multimedia operations within as few instruction cycles as possible. Complex algorithms are readily performed by arranging operands upon the vector ALU in accordance with the desired algorithm flowgraph. The ORU aligns the operands within partitioned slots or sub-slots of the vector registers using vector instructions unique to the MEU. At the output of the ORU, operand pairs from vector source or destination registers can be easily routed and combined at the vector ALU. The MEU may include a plurality of ALUs, registers partitioned into slots, and a decode unit for decoding an instruction specifying operands from any slot from one register and from a fixed slot of another register as well as different operations to be performed by the ALUs on the operands.
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Favor John G.
Thayer John S.
Thome Gary W.
Weber Frederick D.
Advanced Micro Devices , Inc.
Compaq Computer Corp.
Daffer Kevin L.
Kim Kenneth S.
Kowert Robert C.
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