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2011-07-26

2011-07-26

Kindred, Alford W (Department: 2181)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing

Processing control

Arithmetic operation instruction processing

C712S222000, C712S223000, C712S009000, C708S523000, C708S620000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07987344

ABSTRACT:
A programmable processor and method 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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