Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for instructions to multiply floating-point values of about one
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Application No.: US16714656Application Date: 2019-12-13
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Publication No.: US11650819B2Publication Date: 2023-05-16
- Inventor: Mohamed Elmalaki , Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/30
- IPC: G06F9/30

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to instructions to multiply floating-point values of about one are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes a decoder to decode a single instruction into a decoded single instruction, the single instruction having a first field that identifies a first floating-point number, a second field that identifies a second floating-point number, and a third field that indicates an about one threshold; and an execution circuit to execute the decoded single instruction to: cause a first comparison of an exponent of the first floating-point number to the about one threshold, cause a second comparison of an exponent of the second floating-point number to the about one threshold, provide as a resultant of the single instruction a value of the first floating-point number one when both the first comparison indicates the exponent of the first floating-point number does not exceed the about one threshold and the second comparison indicates the exponent of the second floating-point number does not exceed the about one threshold, provide as the resultant of the single instruction the second floating-point number when the first comparison indicates the exponent of the first floating-point number does not exceed the about one threshold, and provide as the resultant of the single instruction a product of a multiplication of the first floating-point number and the second floating-point number when the first comparison indicates the exponent of the first floating-point number exceeds the about one threshold or and the second comparison indicates the exponent of the second floating-point number exceeds the about one threshold.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210182067A1 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR INSTRUCTIONS TO MULTIPLY FLOATING-POINT VALUES OF ABOUT ONE Public/Granted day:2021-06-17
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