Patents by Inventor Martin G. Dixon

Martin G. Dixon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180136936
    Abstract: A method in one aspect may include receiving a multiply instruction. The multiply instruction may indicate a first source operand and a second source operand. A product of the first and second source operands may be stored in one or more destination operands indicated by the multiply instruction. Execution of the multiply instruction may complete without writing a carry flag. Other methods are also disclosed, as are apparatus, systems, and instructions on machine-readable medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinodh Gopal, James D. Guilford, Wajdi K. Feghali, Erdinc Ozturk, Gilbert M. Wolrich, Martin G. Dixon, Mark C. Davis, Sean P. Mirkes, Alexandre J. Farcy, Bret L. Toll, Maxim Loktyukhin
  • Publication number: 20180129506
    Abstract: According to a first aspect, efficient data transfer operations can be achieved by: decoding by a processor device, a single instruction specifying a transfer operation for a plurality of data elements between a first storage location and a second storage location; issuing the single instruction for execution by an execution unit in the processor; detecting an occurrence of an exception during execution of the single instruction; and in response to the exception, delivering pending traps or interrupts to an exception handler prior to delivering the exception.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hughes, Yen-Kuang (Y.K.) Chen, Mayank Bomb, Jason W. Brandt, Mark J. Buxton, Mark J. Charney, Srinivas Chennupaty, Jesus Corbal, Martin G. Dixon, Milind B. Girkar, Jonathan C. Hall, Hideki (Saito) Ido, Peter Lachner, Gilbert Neiger, Chris J. Newburn, Rajesh S. Parthasarathy, Bret L. Toll, Robert Valentine, Jeffrey G. Wiedemeier
  • Patent number: 9960917
    Abstract: A method is described. The method includes iteratively performing for each position in a result matrix stored in a third register, multiplying a value at a matrix position stored in a first register with a value at a matrix position stored in a second register to obtain a first multiplicative value, where the positions in the first register and the second register are determined by the position in the result matrix and performing an exclusive or (XOR) operation with the first multiplicative value and a value stored at a result matrix position stored in the third register to obtain a result value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinodh Gopal, Gilbert M. Wolrich, Kirk S. Yap, James D. Guilford, Erdinc Ozturk, Sean M. Gulley, Wajdi K. Feghali, Martin G. Dixon
  • Patent number: 9940131
    Abstract: A method of one aspect may include receiving a rotate instruction. The rotate instruction may indicate a source operand and a rotate amount. A result may be stored in a destination operand indicated by the rotate instruction. The result may have the source operand rotated by the rotate amount. Execution of the rotate instruction may complete without reading a carry flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinodh Gopal, James D Guilford, Gilbert M Wolrich, Wajdi K Feghali, Erdinc Ozturk, Martin G Dixon, Sean Mirkes, Bret L Toll, Maxim Loktyukhin, Mark C Davis, Alexandre J Farcy
  • Patent number: 9940130
    Abstract: A method of one aspect may include receiving a rotate instruction. The rotate instruction may indicate a source operand and a rotate amount. A result may be stored in a destination operand indicated by the rotate instruction. The result may have the source operand rotated by the rotate amount. Execution of the rotate instruction may complete without reading a carry flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinodh Gopal, James D Guilford, Gilbert M Wolrich, Wajdi K Feghali, Erdinc Ozturk, Martin G Dixon, Sean Mirkes, Bret L Toll, Maxim Loktyukhin, Mark C Davis, Alexandre J Farcy
  • Patent number: 9916160
    Abstract: A method of one aspect may include receiving a rotate instruction. The rotate instruction may indicate a source operand and a rotate amount. A result may be stored in a destination operand indicated by the rotate instruction. The result may have the source operand rotated by the rotate amount. Execution of the rotate instruction may complete without reading a carry flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinodh Gopal, James D. Guilford, Gilbert M. Wolrich, Wajdi K Feghali, Erdinc Ozturk, Martin G Dixon, Sean Mirkes, Bret L Toll, Maxim Loktyukhin, Mark C Davis, Alexandre J Farcy
  • Publication number: 20170351519
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for performing a shift and XOR operation. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes execution resources to execute a first instruction. In response to the first instruction, said execution resources perform a shift and XOR on at least one value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: lntel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinodh Gopal, James D. Guilford, Erdinc Ozturk, Wajdi K. Feghali, Gilbert M. Wolrich, Martin G. Dixon
  • Patent number: 9772845
    Abstract: A processor includes a plurality of registers, an instruction decoder to receive an instruction to process a KECCAK state cube of data representing a KECCAK state of a KECCAK hash algorithm, to partition the KECCAK state cube into a plurality of subcubes, and to store the subcubes in the plurality of registers, respectively, and an execution unit coupled to the instruction decoder to perform the KECCAK hash algorithm on the plurality of subcubes respectively stored in the plurality of registers in a vector manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kirk S. Yap, Gilbert M. Wolrich, James D. Guilford, Vinodh Gopal, Erdinc Ozturk, Sean M. Gulley, Wajdi K. Feghali, Martin G. Dixon
  • Patent number: 9747105
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for performing a shift and XOR operation. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes execution resources to execute a first instruction. In response to the first instruction, said execution resources perform a shift and XOR on at least one value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinodh Gopal, James D. Guilford, Erdine Ozturk, Wajdi K. Feghali, Gilbert M. Wolrich, Martin G. Dixon
  • Patent number: 9740484
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for processing bit streams using bit-oriented instructions. For example, a method according to one embodiment includes the operations of: executing an instruction to get bits for an operation, the instruction identifying a start bit address and a number of bits to be retrieved; retrieving the bits identified by the start bit address and number of bits from a bit-oriented register or cache; and performing a sequence of specified bit operations on the retrieved bits to generate results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vinodh Gopal, James D. Guilford, Gilbert M. Wolrich, Erdinc Ozturk, Wajdi K. Feghali, Kirk S. Yap, Sean M. Gulley, Martin G. Dixon, Robert S. Chappell
  • Publication number: 20170237797
    Abstract: In one embodiment, Quality of Service (QoS) criteria based server side binary translation and execution of applications is performed on multiple servers utilizing distributed translation and execution in either a virtualized or native execution environment. The translated applications are executed to generate output display data, the output display data is encoded in a media format suitable for video streaming, and the video stream is delivered over a network to a client device. In one embodiment, one or more graphics processors assist the central processors of the servers by accelerating the rendering of the application output, and a media encoder encodes the application output into a media format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Bharath Muthiah, William Rash, Glenn Hinton, Martin G. Dixon, Scott Hahn, David Papworth
  • Publication number: 20170235579
    Abstract: An example processor for speculative execution event counter checkpointing and restoring may include a plurality of symmetric cores, at least one of the symmetric cores to simultaneously process a plurality of threads and to perform out-of-order instruction processing for the plurality of threads; at least one shared cache circuit to be shared among two or more the of symmetric cores. The processor may further include event counter circuitry comprising: a plurality of event counters including programmable event counters and fixed event counters and one or more configuration registers to store configuration data to specify an event type to be counted by the programmable event counters, wherein at least one of the one or more configuration registers is to store configuration data for a plurality of the programmable event counters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Laura A. Knauth, Ravi Rajwar, Peggy J. Irelan, Konrad K. Lai, Martin G. Dixon
  • Publication number: 20170235580
    Abstract: An example system for speculative execution event counter checkpointing and restoring may include a plurality of processors, a first interconnect to couple two or more of the plurality of processors, a second interconnect to couple one or more of the plurality of processors to one or more other system components, and a system memory coupled to one or more of the processors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Laura A. Knauth, Ravi Rajwar, Peggy J. Irelan, Konrad K. Lai, Martin G. Dixon
  • Publication number: 20170235638
    Abstract: An example system for speculative execution event counter checkpointing and restoring may include a plurality of symmetric cores, at least one of the symmetric cores to simultaneously process a plurality of threads and to perform out-of-order instruction processing for the plurality of threads; at least one shared cache circuit to be shared among two or more the of symmetric cores. The system may further include a memory controller to couple the symmetric cores to a system memory and a data communication interface to couple one or more of the cores to input/output devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Laura A. Knauth, Ravi Rajwar, Peggy J. Irelan, Konrad K. Lai, Martin G. Dixon
  • Publication number: 20170147341
    Abstract: A processor includes an instruction decoder to receive a first instruction to process a secure hash algorithm 2 (SHA-2) hash algorithm, the first instruction having a first operand associated with a first storage location to store a SHA-2 state and a second operand associated with a second storage location to store a plurality of messages and round constants. The processor further includes an execution unit coupled to the instruction decoder to perform one or more iterations of the SHA-2 hash algorithm on the SHA-2 state specified by the first operand and the plurality of messages and round constants specified by the second operand, in response to the first instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Kirk S. YAP, Gilbert M. WOLRICH, James D. GUILFORD, Vinodh GOPAL, Erdinc OZTURK, Sean M. GULLEY, Wajdi K. FEGHALI, Martin G. DIXON
  • Publication number: 20170147343
    Abstract: A processor includes an instruction decoder to receive a first instruction to process a secure hash algorithm 2 (SHA-2) hash algorithm, the first instruction having a first operand associated with a first storage location to store a SHA-2 state and a second operand associated with a second storage location to store a plurality of messages and round constants. The processor further includes an execution unit coupled to the instruction decoder to perform one or more iterations of the SHA-2 hash algorithm on the SHA-2 state specified by the first operand and the plurality of messages and round constants specified by the second operand, in response to the first instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Kirk S. YAP, Gilbert M. WOLRICH, James D. GUILFORD, Vinodh GOPAL, Erdinc OZTURK, Sean M. GULLEY, Wajdi K. FEGHALI, Martin G. DIXON
  • Publication number: 20170147340
    Abstract: A processor includes an instruction decoder to receive a first instruction to process a secure hash algorithm 2 (SHA-2) hash algorithm, the first instruction having a first operand associated with a first storage location to store a SHA-2 state and a second operand associated with a second storage location to store a plurality of messages and round constants. The processor further includes an execution unit coupled to the instruction decoder to perform one or more iterations of the SHA-2 hash algorithm on the SHA-2 state specified by the first operand and the plurality of messages and round constants specified by the second operand, in response to the first instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Kirk S. YAP, Gilbert M. WOLRICH, James D. GUILFORD, Vinodh GOPAL, Erdinc OZTURK, Sean M. GULLEY, Wajdi K. FEGHALI, Martin G. DIXON
  • Publication number: 20170147348
    Abstract: A processor includes an instruction decoder to receive a first instruction to process a secure hash algorithm 2 (SHA-2) hash algorithm, the first instruction having a first operand associated with a first storage location to store a SHA-2 state and a second operand associated with a second storage location to store a plurality of messages and round constants. The processor further includes an execution unit coupled to the instruction decoder to perform one or more iterations of the SHA-2 hash algorithm on the SHA-2 state specified by the first operand and the plurality of messages and round constants specified by the second operand, in response to the first instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Kirk S. YAP, Gilbert M. WOLRICH, James D. GUILFORD, Vinodh GOPAL, Erdinc OZTURK, Sean M. GULLEY, Wajdi K. FEGHALI, Martin G. DIXON
  • Publication number: 20170147342
    Abstract: A processor includes an instruction decoder to receive a first instruction to process a secure hash algorithm 2 (SHA-2) hash algorithm, the first instruction having a first operand associated with a first storage location to store a SHA-2 state and a second operand associated with a second storage location to store a plurality of messages and round constants. The processor further includes an execution unit coupled to the instruction decoder to perform one or more iterations of the SHA-2 hash algorithm on the SHA-2 state specified by the first operand and the plurality of messages and round constants specified by the second operand, in response to the first instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Kirk S. YAP, Gilbert M. WOLRICH, James D. GUILFORD, Vinodh GOPAL, Erdinc OZTURK, Sean M. GULLEY, Wajdi K. FEGHALI, Martin G. DIXON
  • Patent number: 9652234
    Abstract: A dynamic optimization of code for a processor-specific dynamic binary translation of hot code pages (e.g., frequently executed code pages) may be provided by a run-time translation layer. A method may be provided to use an instruction look-aside buffer (iTLB) to map original code pages and translated code pages. The method may comprise fetching an instruction from an original code page, determining whether the fetched instruction is a first instruction of a new code page and whether the original code page is deprecated. If both determinations return yes, the method may further comprise fetching a next instruction from a translated code page. If either determinations returns no, the method may further comprise decoding the instruction and fetching the next instruction from the original code page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Caprioli, Martin G. Dixon, Brett L. Toll, Muawya M. Al-Otoom, Omar M. Shaikh