Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Processing control
Reexamination Certificate
2008-09-30
2008-09-30
Coleman, Eric (Department: 2183)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing
Processing control
Reexamination Certificate
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10757515
ABSTRACT:
A system and software for improving the performance of processors by incorporating an execution unit configurable to execute a plurality of instruction streams from the plurality of threads, wherein each instruction stream includes a group instruction that operates on a plurality of data elements in partitioned fields of at least one of the registers to produce a catenated result.
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