Patents by Inventor Alexander F. Heinecke

Alexander F. Heinecke 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: 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
  • Patent number: 11714642
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, the loading of a matrix (tile) from memory. For example, support for a loading instruction is described in at least a form of decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode, a source matrix operand identifier, and destination memory information, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to store each data element of configured rows of the identified source matrix operand to memory based on the destination memory information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Menachem Adelman, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Bret L. Toll, Milind B. Girkar, Zeev Sperber, Mark J. Charney, Rinat Rappoport, Jesus Corbal, Stanislav Shwartsman, Igor Yanover, Alexander F. Heinecke, Barukh Ziv, Dan Baum, Yuri Gebil
  • Publication number: 20230236833
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, the loading of a matrix (tile) from memory. For example, support for a loading instruction is described in the form of decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode, a destination matrix operand identifier, and source memory information, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to load groups of strided data elements from memory into configured rows of the identified destination matrix operand to memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Robert VALENTINE, Menachem ADELMAN, Milind B. GIRKAR, Zeev SPERBER, Mark J. CHARNEY, Bret L. TOLL, Rinat RAPPOPORT, Jesus Corbal, Stanislav SHWARTSMAN, Dan BAUM, Igor YANOVER, Alexander F. HEINECKE, Barukh ZIV, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Yuri GEBIL
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 11567765
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, the loading of a matrix (tile) from memory. For example, support for a loading instruction is described in the form of decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode, a destination matrix operand identifier, and source memory information, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to load groups of strided data elements from memory into configured rows of the identified destination matrix operand to memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Menachem Adelman, Milind B. Girkar, Zeev Sperber, Mark J. Charney, Bret L. Toll, Rinat Rappoport, Jesus Corbal, Stanislav Shwartsman, Dan Baum, Igor Yanover, Alexander F. Heinecke, Barukh Ziv, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Yuri Gebil
  • Patent number: 11507376
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to instructions for fast element unpacking. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction whose format includes fields to specify an opcode and locations of an Array-of-Structures (AOS) source matrix and one or more Structure of Arrays (SOA) destination matrices, wherein: the specified opcode calls for unpacking elements of the specified AOS source matrix into the specified Structure of Arrays (SOA) destination matrices, the AOS source matrix is to contain N structures each containing K elements of different types, with same-typed elements in consecutive structures separated by a stride, the SOA destination matrices together contain K segregated groups, each containing N same-typed elements, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instruction, to unpack each element of the specified AOS matrix into one of the K element types of the one or more SOA matrices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bret Toll, Alexander F. Heinecke, Christopher J. Hughes, Ronen Zohar, Michael Espig, Dan Baum, Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall
  • Publication number: 20220357950
    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: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Raanan SADE, Robert VALENTINE, Bret TOLL, Christopher J. HUGHES, Alexander F. HEINECKE, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Mark J. CHARNEY
  • Publication number: 20220343174
    Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor including a processing resource including a multiplier configured to multiply input associated with the instruction at one of a first plurality of bit widths, an adder configured to add a product output from the multiplier with an accumulator value at one of a second plurality of bit widths, and circuitry to select a first bit width of the first plurality of bit widths for the multiplier and a second bit width of the second plurality of bit widths for the adder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dipankar Das, Roger Gramunt, Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Jesus Corbal, Dheevatsa Mudigere, Naveen K. Mellempudi, Alexander F. Heinecke
  • Publication number: 20220326948
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to convert to 16-bit floating-point format. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of a first source vector comprising N single-precision elements, and a destination vector comprising at least N 16-bit floating-point elements, the opcode to indicate execution circuitry is to convert each of the elements of the specified source vector to 16-bit floating-point, the conversion to include truncation and rounding, as necessary, and to store each converted element into a corresponding location of the specified destination vector, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction as specified by the opcode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander F. HEINECKE, Robert VALENTINE, Mark J. CHARNEY, Raanan SADE, Menachem ADELMAN, Zeev SPERBER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Simon RUBANOVICH
  • Publication number: 20220326949
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing 16-bit floating-point vector dot product instructions. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of first source, second source, and destination vectors, the opcode to indicate execution circuitry is to multiply N pairs of 16-bit floating-point formatted elements of the specified first and second sources, and accumulate the resulting products with previous contents of a corresponding single-precision element of the specified destination, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction as specified by the opcode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander F. HEINECKE, Robert VALENTINE, Mark J. CHARNEY, Raanan SADE, Menachem ADELMAN, Zeev SPERBER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Simon RUBANOVICH
  • Publication number: 20220300286
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, performing a matrix operation of zeroing a matrix in response to a single instruction. For example, a processor detailed which includes decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode and a source/destination matrix operand identifier; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to zero each data element of the identified source/destination matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Robert VALENTINE, Menachem ADELMAN, Zeev SPERBER, Mark J. CHARNEY, Bret L. TOLL, Jesus CORBAL, Alexander F. HEINECKE, Barukh ZIV, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Stanislav SHWARTSMAN
  • Publication number: 20220291926
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, the loading of a matrix (tile) from memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Robert VALENTINE, Menachem ADELMAN, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Bret L. TOLL, Milind B. GIRKAR, Zeev SPERBER, Mark J. CHARNEY, Rinat RAPPOPORT, Jesus CORBAL, Stanislav SHWARTSMAN, Igor YANOVER, Alexander F. HEINECKE, Barukh ZIV, Dan BAUM, Yuri GEBIL
  • Publication number: 20220291927
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, the loading of a matrix (tile) from memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Robert VALENTINE, Menachem ADELMAN, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Bret L. TOLL, Milind B. GIRKAR, Zeev SPERBER, Mark J. CHARNEY, Rinat RAPPOPORT, Jesus CORBAL, Stanislav SHWARTSMAN, Igor YANOVER, Alexander F. HEINECKE, Barukh ZIV, Dan BAUM, Yuri GEBIL
  • Patent number: 11416260
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for implementing chained tile operations. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch one or more instructions until a plurality of instructions has been fetched, each instruction to specify source and destination tile operands, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instructions, and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instructions, to: identify first and second decoded instructions belonging to a chain of instructions, dynamically select and configure a SIMD path comprising first and second processing engines (PE) to execute the first and second decoded instructions, and set aside the specified destination of the first decoded instruction, and instead route a result of the first decoded instruction from the first PE to be used by the second PE to perform the second decoded instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hughes, Alexander F. Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall
  • Patent number: 11403071
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to transpose rectangular tiles. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of first destination, second destination, first source, and second source matrices, the specified opcode to cause the processor to process each of the specified source and destination matrices as a rectangular matrix, decode circuitry to decode the fetched rectangular matrix transpose instruction, and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded rectangular matrix transpose instruction by transposing each row of elements of the specified first source matrix into a corresponding column of the specified first destination matrix and transposing each row of elements of the specified second source matrix into a corresponding column of the specified second destination matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Christopher J. Hughes, Alexander F. Heinecke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall
  • Patent number: 11392381
    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: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Bret Toll, Christopher J. Hughes, Alexander F. Heinecke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Mark J. Charney