Processors, methods, systems, and instructions to generate sequences of integers in which integers in consecutive positions differ by a constant integer stride and where a smallest integer is offset from zero by an integer offset

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10732970-B2
Application number	US-201916271675-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 8, 2019
Priority date	Dec 22, 2011
Publication date	Aug 4, 2020
Grant date	Aug 4, 2020

Abstract

A method of an aspect includes receiving an instruction. The instruction indicates an integer stride, indicates an integer offset, and indicates a destination storage location. A result is stored in the destination storage location in response to the instruction. The result includes a sequence of at least four integers in numerical order with a smallest one of the at least four integers differing from zero by the integer offset and with all integers of the sequence in consecutive positions differing by the integer stride. Other methods, apparatus, systems, and instructions are disclosed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a system memory; and
a processor coupled to the system memory, the processor comprising:
a plurality of vector registers, including a destination vector register;
a plurality of general-purpose registers;
a plurality of mask registers;
a decoder to decode an instruction specifying an integer offset, specifying an integer stride, and having a field specifying the destination vector register, wherein the instruction has one of an immediate specifying the integer offset and a field specifying a source register specifying the integer offset, wherein the instruction has one of an immediate specifying the integer stride and a field specifying a source register specifying the integer stride; and
an execution unit coupled to the decoder and coupled to the plurality of vector registers, the execution unit to execute the instruction to generate and store a result in the destination vector register, the result including a sequence of at least eight integer indexes in numerical order, in which a least significant integer index of the sequence is equal to the integer offset, and in which all integer indexes of the sequence in consecutive positions differ by the integer stride.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instruction has the immediate specifying the integer offset, and the instruction has the field specifying the source register specifying the integer stride.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instruction has the immediate specifying the integer stride, and the instruction has the field specifying the source register specifying the integer offset.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instruction has one or more immediates specifying the integer offset and the integer stride.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instruction has one or more fields specifying one or more source registers specifying the integer offset and the integer stride.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the result is to include the sequence of at least thirty-two integer indexes in the numerical order.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the destination vector register comprises 512-bits.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor further comprises:
a level 1 cache; and
a level 2 cache.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the decoder and the execution unit are included in an out-of-order core, and wherein the out-of-order core comprises a reorder buffer (ROB).

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processor.

11. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a mass storage device coupled to the processor.

12. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a disk drive coupled to the processor.

13. The system of claim 1 , further comprising an I/O device coupled to the processor.

14. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a communication device coupled to the processor.

15. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a second processor coupled to the processor.

16. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express bus coupled to the processor.

17. The system of claim 1 , further comprising audio I/O coupled to the processor.

18. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system memory comprises a dynamic random access memory (DRAM).

19. A system comprising:
a system memory;
a processor coupled to the system memory, wherein the processor is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processor, the processor comprising:
a plurality of vector registers, including a destination vector register;
a plurality of general-purpose registers;
a plurality of mask registers;
a decoder to decode an instruction specifying an integer offset, specifying an integer stride, and having a field specifying the destination vector register, wherein the instruction has an immediate specifying the integer offset, wherein the instruction has a field specifying a source register specifying the integer stride; and
an execution unit coupled to the decoder and coupled to the plurality of vector registers, the execution unit to execute the instruction to generate and store a result in the destination vector register which has at least 512-bits, the result including a sequence of at least thirty-two integer indexes in numerical order, in which a least significant integer index of the sequence is equal to the integer offset, and in which all integer indexes of the sequence in consecutive positions differ by the integer stride, wherein the decoder and the execution unit are included in an out-of-order core, and wherein the out-of-order core further comprises a reorder buffer (ROB);

a communication device coupled to the processor; and
a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express bus coupled to the processor.

20. A system comprising:
a system memory;
a processor coupled to the system memory, wherein the processor is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processor, the processor comprising:
a plurality of vector registers, including a destination vector register;
a plurality of general-purpose registers;
a plurality of mask registers;
a decoder to decode an instruction specifying an integer offset, specifying an integer stride, and having a field specifying the destination vector register, wherein the instruction has a field specifying a source register specifying the integer offset, wherein the instruction has an immediate specifying the integer stride; and
an execution unit in an out-of-order portion of the processor that is coupled to the decoder and coupled to the plurality of vector registers, the execution unit to execute the instruction to generate and store a result in the destination vector register which has at least 512-bits, the result including a sequence of at least thirty-two integer indexes in numerical order, in which a least significant integer index of the sequence is equal to the integer offset, and in which all integer indexes of the sequence in consecutive positions differ by the integer stride;

a communication device coupled to the processor; and
a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express bus coupled to the processor.

21. A method comprising:
accessing data in a system memory;
storing data in a plurality of vector registers of a processor;
storing data in a plurality of general-purpose registers of the processor;
storing data in a plurality of mask registers of the processor;
decoding an instruction specifying an integer offset, specifying an integer stride, and having a field specifying the destination vector register, wherein the instruction has one of an immediate specifying the integer offset and a field specifying a source register specifying the integer offset, wherein the instruction has one of an immediate specifying the integer stride and a field specifying a source register specifying the integer stride;
executing the instruction including generating and storing a result in a destination vector register of the plurality of vector registers, the result including a sequence of at least eight integer indexes in numerical order, in which a least significant integer index of the sequence is equal to the integer offset, and in which all integer indexes of the sequence in consecutive positions differ by the integer stride;
storing data in a mass storage device; and
accessing an I/O device.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Abraham Seth
• Ould-Ahmed-Vall Elmoustapha
• Valentine Robert
• Sperber Zeev
• Gradstein Amit

Classifications

• G06F9/30038

  using a mask · CPC title

• G06F9/30036

  Instructions to perform operations on packed data, e.g. vector, tile or matrix operations · CPC title

• G06F9/3001 Primary

  Arithmetic instructions · CPC title

• G06F9/30163

  with implied specifier, e.g. top of stack · CPC title

• G06F9/30032

  Movement instructions, e.g. MOVE, SHIFT, ROTATE, SHUFFLE · CPC title