Abstract: A method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium are provided for permuting data registers to a target register. Two or more data registers are concatenated to form a concatenated data register. Each data register comprises a plurality of elements. A permutation instruction which uses one of the data registers as a data input register is executed and conditionally selects an element of the data input register by comparing a portion of an element of a pattern register to an immediate match field value. The selected element of the data input register is copied to an element in a target register at a position corresponding to a position of the element of the pattern register when the portion of the element of the pattern register matches the immediate match field value. When the portion of the element of the pattern register does not match, the target register remains unchanged.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium are provided for permuting data registers to a target register. Two or more data registers are concatenated to form a concatenated data register. Each data register comprises a plurality of elements. A permutation instruction which uses one of the data registers as a data input register is executed and conditionally selects an element of the data input register by comparing a portion of an element of a pattern register to an immediate match field value. The selected element of the data input register is copied to an element in a target register at a position corresponding to a position of the element of the pattern register when the portion of the element of the pattern register matches the immediate match field value. When the portion of the element of the pattern register does not match, the target register remains unchanged.