Patents by Inventor Raanan Sade

Raanan Sade 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).

  • Patent number: 11809869
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to systems and methods to store a tile register pair to memory. In one example, a processor includes: decode circuitry to decode a store matrix pair instruction having fields for an opcode and source and destination identifiers to identify source and destination matrices, respectively, each matrix having a PAIR parameter equal to TRUE; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded store matrix pair instruction to store every element of left and right tiles of the identified source matrix to corresponding element positions of left and right tiles of the identified destination matrix, respectively, wherein the executing stores a chunk of C elements of one row of the identified source matrix at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Publication number: 20230350682
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to transform matrices into a row-interleaved format. In one example, a processor includes fetch and decode circuitry to fetch and decode an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of source and destination matrices, wherein the opcode indicates that the processor is to transform the specified source matrix into the specified destination matrix having the row-interleaved format; and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction by transforming the specified source matrix into the specified RowInt-formatted destination matrix by interleaving J elements of each J-element sub-column of the specified source matrix in either row-major or column-major order into a K-wide submatrix of the specified destination matrix, the K-wide submatrix having K columns and enough rows to hold the J elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Raanan SADE, Robert VALENTINE, Bret TOLL, Christopher J. HUGHES, Alexander F. HEINECKE, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Mark J. CHARNEY
  • Patent number: 11789729
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to computing dot products of nibbles in tile operands. In one example, a processor includes decode circuitry to decode a tile dot product instruction having fields for an opcode, a destination identifier to identify a M by N destination matrix, a first source identifier to identify a M by K first source matrix, and a second source identifier to identify a K by N second source matrix, each of the matrices containing doubleword elements, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to perform a flow K times for each element (M,N) of the identified destination matrix to generate eight products by multiplying each nibble of a doubleword element (M,K) of the identified first source matrix by a corresponding nibble of a doubleword element (K,N) of the identified second source matrix, and to accumulate and saturate the eight products with previous contents of the doubleword element (M,N).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall
  • Patent number: 11748103
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to matrix compress/decompress instructions. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch a compress instruction having a format with fields to specify an opcode and locations of decompressed source and compressed destination matrices, decode circuitry to decode the fetched compress instructions, and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded compress instruction, to: generate a compressed result according to a compress algorithm by compressing the specified decompressed source matrix by either packing non-zero-valued elements together and storing the matrix position of each non-zero-valued element in a header, or using fewer bits to represent one or more elements and using the header to identify matrix elements being represented by fewer bits; and store the compressed result to the specified compressed destination matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Baum, Michael Espig, James Guilford, Wajdi K. Feghali, Raanan Sade, Christopher J. Hughes, Robert Valentine, Bret Toll, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Mark J. Charney, Vinodh Gopal, Ronen Zohar, Alexander F. Heinecke
  • Publication number: 20230273846
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relating to memory corruption detection are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes an execution unit to execute an instruction to request access to a block of a memory through a pointer to the block of the memory, and a memory management unit to allow access to the block of the memory when a memory corruption detection value in the pointer is validated with a memory corruption detection value in the memory for the block, wherein a position of the memory corruption detection value in the pointer is selectable between a first location and a second, different location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Tomer Stark, Ron Gabor, Joseph Nuzman, Raanan Sade, Bryant E. Bigbee
  • Patent number: 11714648
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems for performing instructions to quickly convert and use matrices (tiles) as one-dimensional vectors. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode, locations of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix and a one-dimensional (1D) vector, and a group of elements comprising one of a row, part of a row, multiple rows, a column, part of a column, multiple columns, and a rectangular sub-tile of the specified 2D matrix, and wherein the opcode is to indicate a move of the specified group between the 2D matrix and the 1D vector, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction; and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instruction, when the opcode specifies a move from 1D, to move contents of the specified 1D vector to the specified group of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bret Toll, Christopher J. Hughes, Dan Baum, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Alexander F. Heinecke
  • Publication number: 20230236834
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to computing dot products of nibbles in tile operands. In one example, a processor includes decode circuitry to decode a tile dot product instruction having fields for an opcode, a destination identifier to identify a M by N destination matrix, a first source identifier to identify a M by K first source matrix, and a second source identifier to identify a K by N second source matrix, each of the matrices containing doubleword elements, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to perform a flow K times for each element (m, n) of the specified destination matrix to generate eight products by multiplying each nibble of a doubleword element (M,K) of the specified first source matrix by a corresponding nibble of a doubleword element (K,N) of the specified second source matrix, and to accumulate and saturate the eight products with previous contents of the doubleword element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander F. HEINECKE, Robert VALENTINE, Mark J. CHARNEY, Raanan SADE, Menachem ADELMAN, Zeev SPERBER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Simon RUBANOVICH
  • Publication number: 20230229446
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to systems and methods to load a tile register pair. In one example, a processor includes: decode circuitry to decode a load matrix pair instruction having fields for an opcode and source and destination identifiers to identify source and destination matrices, respectively, each matrix having a PAIR parameter equal to TRUE; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded load matrix pair instruction to load every element of left and right tiles of the identified destination matrix from corresponding element positions of left and right tiles of the identified source matrix, respectively, wherein the executing operates on one row of the identified destination matrix at a time, starting with the first row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Patent number: 11693785
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for tagged memory management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ron Gabor, Enrico Perla, Raanan Sade, Igor Yanover, Tomer Stark, Joseph Nuzman
  • Patent number: 11675590
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to transform matrices into a row-interleaved format. In one example, a processor includes fetch and decode circuitry to fetch and decode an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of source and destination matrices, wherein the opcode indicates that the processor is to transform the specified source matrix into the specified destination matrix having the row-interleaved format; and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction by transforming the specified source matrix into the specified RowInt-formatted destination matrix by interleaving J elements of each J-element sub-column of the specified source matrix in either row-major or column-major order into a K-wide submatrix of the specified destination matrix, the K-wide submatrix having K columns and enough rows to hold the J elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Bret Toll, Christopher J. Hughes, Alexander F. Heinecke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Mark J. Charney
  • Publication number: 20230176870
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to circuitry to precisely monitor memory store accesses are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Ahmad YASIN, Raanan SADE, Liron ZUR, Igor YANOVER, Joseph NUZMAN
  • Patent number: 11669326
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. For example, embodiments of instruction support for matrix (tile) dot product operations are detailed. Exemplary instructions including computing a dot product of signed words and accumulating in a quadword data elements of a matrix pair. Additionally, in some instances, non-accumulating quadword data elements of the matrix pair are set to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Patent number: 11656998
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for tagged memory management, an embodiment including execution circuitry to generate a system memory access request having a first address pointer and address translation circuitry to determine whether to translate the first address pointer with metadata processing. The address translation circuitry is to access address translation tables to translate the first address pointer to a first physical address, perform a lookup in a memory metadata table to identify a memory metadata value associated with a physical address range including the first physical address, determine a pointer metadata value associated with the first address pointer, and compare the memory metadata value with the pointer metadata value; and when the comparison results in a validation of the memory access request, then return the first physical address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ron Gabor, Enrico Perla, Raanan Sade, Igor Yanover, Tomer Stark
  • Patent number: 11645077
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to systems and methods to zero a tile register pair. In one example, a processor includes decode circuitry to decode a matrix pair zeroing instruction having fields for an opcode and an identifier to identify a destination matrix having a PAIR parameter equal to TRUE; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded matrix pair zeroing instruction to zero every element of a left matrix and a right matrix of the identified destination matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman, Eyal Hadas
  • Patent number: 11645135
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses relating to memory corruption detection are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes an execution unit to execute an instruction to request access to a block of a memory through a pointer to the block of the memory, and a memory management unit to allow access to the block of the memory when a memory corruption detection value in the pointer is validated with a memory corruption detection value in the memory for the block, wherein a position of the memory corruption detection value in the pointer is selectable between a first location and a second, different location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tomer Stark, Ron Gabor, Joseph Nuzman, Raanan Sade, Bryant E. Bigbee
  • Patent number: 11614936
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to computing dot products of nibbles in tile operands. In one example, a processor includes decode circuitry to decode a tile dot product instruction having fields for an opcode, a destination identifier to identify a M by N destination matrix, a first source identifier to identify a M by K first source matrix, and a second source identifier to identify a K by N second source matrix, each of the matrices containing doubleword elements, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to perform a flow K times for each element (m, n) of the specified destination matrix to generate eight products by multiplying each nibble of a doubleword element (M,K) of the specified first source matrix by a corresponding nibble of a doubleword element (K,N) of the specified second source matrix, and to accumulate and saturate the eight products with previous contents of the doubleword element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander F. Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Raanan Sade, Menachem Adelman, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich
  • Patent number: 11609762
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to systems and methods to load a tile register pair. In one example, a processor includes: decode circuitry to decode a load matrix pair instruction having fields for an opcode and source and destination identifiers to identify source and destination matrices, respectively, each matrix having a PAIR parameter equal to TRUE; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded load matrix pair instruction to load every element of left and right tiles of the identified destination matrix from corresponding element positions of left and right tiles of the identified source matrix, respectively, wherein the executing operates on one row of the identified destination matrix at a time, starting with the first row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Publication number: 20230082290
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to circuitry to precisely monitor memory store accesses are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Ahmad YASIN, Raanan SADE, Liron ZUR, Igor YANOVER, Joseph NUZMAN
  • Patent number: 11579883
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions specifying horizontal tile operations. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction specifying a horizontal tile operation, a location of a M by N source matrix comprising K groups of elements, and locations of K destinations, wherein each of the K groups of elements comprises the same number of elements, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction by generating K results, each result being generated by performing the specified horizontal tile operation across every element of a corresponding group of the K groups, and writing each generated result to a corresponding location of the K specified destination locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hughes, Bret Toll, Dan Baum, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Alexander F. Heinecke
  • Patent number: 11579880
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems for performing instructions to quickly convert and use matrices (tiles) as one-dimensional vectors. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode, locations of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix and a one-dimensional (1D) vector, and a group of elements comprising one of a row, part of a row, multiple rows, a column, part of a column, multiple columns, and a rectangular sub-tile of the specified 2D matrix, and wherein the opcode is to indicate a move of the specified group between the 2D matrix and the 1D vector, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction; and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instruction, when the opcode specifies a move from 1D, to move contents of the specified 1D vector to the specified group of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bret Toll, Christopher J. Hughes, Dan Baum, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Alexander F. Heinecke