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.

Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix (tile) operations. For example, decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode and a memory address; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to set a tile configuration for the processor to utilize tiles in matrix operations based on a description retrieved from the memory address, wherein a tile a set of 2-dimensional registers are discussed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to transposing vectors while loading from memory. In one example, a processor includes a register file, a memory interface, fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction having fields to specify an opcode, a destination vector register, and a source vector having N groups of elements, N being a positive integer, the opcode to indicate the processor is to fetch the source vector, generate write data comprising one or more N-tuples, each N-tuple comprising corresponding elements from each of the N groups of elements, and write the write data to the destination vector register, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction as per the opcode, the execution circuitry has a shuffle pipeline disposed between the memory and the register file, the shuffle pipeline to fetch, decode, and execute further instances of the instruction at one instruction per clock cycle.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions specifying ternary tile operations. In one example, a processor includes fetch and decode circuitry to fetch and decode an instruction specifying a ternary tile operation, and locations of destination and first, second, and third source matrices, each of the matrices having M rows by N columns; and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction by, for each equal-sized group of K elements of the specified first, second, and third source matrices, generate K results by performing the ternary tile operation in parallel on K corresponding elements of the specified first, second, and third source matrices, and store each of the K results to a corresponding element of the specified destination matrix, wherein corresponding elements of the specified source and destination matrices occupy a same relative position within their associated matrix.

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.

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.

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.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to deep learning implementations using systolic arrays and fused operations. 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 a destination and N source matrices, the opcode indicating the processor is to load the N source matrices from memory, perform N convolutions on the N source matrices to generate N feature maps, and store results of the N convolutions in registers to be passed to an activation layer, wherein the processor is to perform the N convolutions and the activation layer with at most one memory load of each of the N source matrices. The processor further includes scheduling circuitry to schedule execution of the instruction and execution circuitry to execute the instruction as per the opcode.

Abstract: A processing cluster of a processing cluster array comprises a plurality of registers to store input values of vector input operands, the input values of at least some of the vector input operands having different bit lengths than those of other input values of other vector input operands, and a compute unit to execute a dot-product instruction with the vector input operands to perform a number of parallel multiply operations and an accumulate operation per 32-bit lane based on a bit length of the smallest-sized input value of a first vector input operand relative to the 32-bit lane.

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.