Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Address generation for high-performance vector processing
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Application No.: US16408575Application Date: 2019-05-10
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Publication No.: US10996949B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Jan Van Lunteren
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Harrington & Smith
- Main IPC: G06F9/30
- IPC: G06F9/30 ; G06F12/06

Abstract:
A method for accessing a binary data vector in a memory unit comprising a plurality of memory banks in which the binary data vector is stored in portions includes receiving a start address of the binary data vector and a power-of-2-stride elements of the data vector and determining offsets, wherein the offsets are determined by applying a plurality of bit-level XOR functions to the start address resulting in a Z vector, using the Z vector for accessing a mapping table, and shifting mapping table access results according to a power-of-2-stride of the binary data vector. Additionally, the method includes determining a sequence of portions of the binary data vector in the n memory banks depending on a binary equivalent value of the Z vector, and accessing the binary data vector in the n memory banks of the memory unit in parallel.
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