Patents by Inventor Dennis R. Bradford

Dennis R. Bradford 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: 20240061683
    Abstract: A vector friendly instruction format and execution thereof. According to one embodiment of the invention, a processor is configured to execute an instruction set. The instruction set includes a vector friendly instruction format. The vector friendly instruction format has a plurality of fields including a base operation field, a modifier field, an augmentation operation field, and a data element width field, wherein the first instruction format supports different versions of base operations and different augmentation operations through placement of different values in the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field, and wherein only one of the different values may be placed in each of the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field on each occurrence of an instruction in the first instruction format in instruction streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Robert C. VALENTINE, Jesus Corbal SAN ADRIAN, Roger Espasa SANS, Robert D. CAVIN, Bret L. TOLL, Santiago Galan DURAN, Jeffrey G. WIEDEMEIER, Sridhar SAMUDRALA, Milind Baburao GIRKAR, Edward Thomas GROCHOWSKI, Jonathan Cannon HALL, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, James C ABEL, Mark CHARNEY, Seth ABRAHAM, Suleyman SAIR, Andrew Thomas FORSYTH, Lisa WU, Charles YOUNT
  • Publication number: 20230418655
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Rajesh M. SANKARAN, Gilbert NEIGER, Narayan RANGANATHAN, Stephen R. VAN DOREN, Joseph NUZMAN, Niall D. MCDONNELL, Michael A. O'HANLON, Lokpraveen B. MOSUR, Tracy Garrett DRYSDALE, Eriko NURVITADHI, Asit K. MISHRA, Ganesh VENKATESH, Deborah T. MARR, Nicholas P. CARTER, Jonathan D. PEARCE, Edward T. GROCHOWSKI, Richard J. GRECO, Robert VALENTINE, Jesus CORBAL, Thomas D. FLETCHER, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Dwight P. MANLEY, Mark J. CHARNEY, Jeffrey J. COOK, Paul CAPRIOLI, Koichi YAMADA, Kent D. GLOSSOP, David B. SHEFFIELD
  • Patent number: 11740904
    Abstract: A vector friendly instruction format and execution thereof. According to one embodiment of the invention, a processor is configured to execute an instruction set. The instruction set includes a vector friendly instruction format. The vector friendly instruction format has a plurality of fields including a base operation field, a modifier field, an augmentation operation field, and a data element width field, wherein the first instruction format supports different versions of base operations and different augmentation operations through placement of different values in the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field, and wherein only one of the different values may be placed in each of the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field on each occurrence of an instruction in the first instruction format in instruction streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert C. Valentine, Jesus Corbal San Adrian, Roger Espasa Sans, Robert D. Cavin, Bret L. Toll, Santiago Galan Duran, Jeffrey G. Wiedemeier, Sridhar Samudrala, Milind Baburao Girkar, Edward Thomas Grochowski, Jonathan Cannon Hall, Dennis R. Bradford, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, James C Abel, Mark Charney, Seth Abraham, Suleyman Sair, Andrew Thomas Forsyth, Lisa Wu, Charles Yount
  • Patent number: 11693691
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rajesh M. Sankaran, Gilbert Neiger, Narayan Ranganathan, Stephen R. Van Doren, Joseph Nuzman, Niall D. McDonnell, Michael A. O'Hanlon, Lokpraveen B. Mosur, Tracy Garrett Drysdale, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Asit K. Mishra, Ganesh Venkatesh, Deborah T. Marr, Nicholas P. Carter, Jonathan D. Pearce, Edward T. Grochowski, Richard J. Greco, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal, Thomas D. Fletcher, Dennis R. Bradford, Dwight P. Manley, Mark J. Charney, Jeffrey J. Cook, Paul Caprioli, Koichi Yamada, Kent D. Glossop, David B. Sheffield
  • Publication number: 20230083705
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for chained fused multiply add. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a decoder to decode a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, a first source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands of a first type that have packed data elements of a first size, a second source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and a field for a memory location that stores a scalar value. A register file having a plurality of packed data registers includes registers for the plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a first size, the source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and the destination operand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: JESUS CORBAL, ROBERT VALENTINE, ROMAN S. DUBTSOV, NIKITA A. SHUSTROV, MARK J. CHARNEY, DENNIS R. BRADFORD, MILIND B. GIRKAR, EDWARD T. GROCHOWSKI, THOMAS D. FLETCHER, WARREN E. FERGUSON
  • Patent number: 11487541
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for chained fused multiply add. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a decoder to decode a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, a first source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands of a first type that have packed data elements of a first size, a second source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and a field for a memory location that stores a scalar value. A register file having a plurality of packed data registers includes registers for the plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a first size, the source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and the destination operand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jesus Corbal, Robert Valentine, Roman S. Dubtsov, Nikita A. Shustrov, Mark J. Charney, Dennis R. Bradford, Milind B. Girkar, Edward T. Grochowski, Thomas D. Fletcher, Warren E. Ferguson
  • Patent number: 11416281
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rajesh M. Sankaran, Gilbert Neiger, Narayan Ranganathan, Stephen R. Van Doren, Joseph Nuzman, Niall D. McDonnell, Michael A. O'Hanlon, Lokpraveen B. Mosur, Tracy Garrett Drysdale, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Asit K. Mishra, Ganesh Venkatesh, Deborah T. Marr, Nicholas P. Carter, Jonathan D. Pearce, Edward T. Grochowski, Richard J. Greco, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal, Thomas D. Fletcher, Dennis R. Bradford, Dwight P. Manley, Mark J. Charney, Jeffrey J. Cook, Paul Caprioli, Koichi Yamada, Kent D. Glossop, David B. Sheffield
  • Publication number: 20220164218
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Rajesh M. SANKARAN, Gilbert NEIGER, Narayan RANGANATHAN, Stephen R. VAN DOREN, Joseph NUZMAN, Niall D. MCDONNELL, Michael A. O'HANLON, Lokpraveen B. MOSUR, Tracy Garrett DRYSDALE, Eriko NURVITADHI, Asit K. MISHRA, Ganesh VENKATESH, Deborah T. MARR, Nicholas P. CARTER, Jonathan D. PEARCE, Edward T. GROCHOWSKI, Richard J. GRECO, Robert VALENTINE, Jesus CORBAL, Thomas D. FLETCHER, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Dwight P. MANLEY, Mark J. CHARNEY, Jeffrey J. COOK, Paul CAPRIOLI, Koichi YAMADA, Kent D. GLOSSOP, David B. SHEFFIELD
  • Publication number: 20220129274
    Abstract: A vector friendly instruction format and execution thereof. According to one embodiment of the invention, a processor is configured to execute an instruction set. The instruction set includes a vector friendly instruction format. The vector friendly instruction format has a plurality of fields including a base operation field, a modifier field, an augmentation operation field, and a data element width field, wherein the first instruction format supports different versions of base operations and different augmentation operations through placement of different values in the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field, and wherein only one of the different values may be placed in each of the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field on each occurrence of an instruction in the first instruction format in instruction streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert C. VALENTINE, Jesus Corbal SAN ADRIAN, Roger Espasa SANS, Robert D. CAVIN, Bret L. TOLL, Santiago Galan DURAN, Jeffrey G. WIEDEMEIER, Sridhar SAMUDRALA, Milind Baburao GIRKAR, Edward Thomas GROCHOWSKI, Jonathan Cannon HALL, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, James C ABEL, Mark CHARNEY, Seth ABRAHAM, Suleyman SAIR, Andrew Thomas FORSYTH, Lisa WU, Charles YOUNT
  • Patent number: 11210096
    Abstract: A vector friendly instruction format and execution thereof. According to one embodiment of the invention, a processor is configured to execute an instruction set. The instruction set includes a vector friendly instruction format. The vector friendly instruction format has a plurality of fields including a base operation field, a modifier field, an augmentation operation field, and a data element width field, wherein the first instruction format supports different versions of base operations and different augmentation operations through placement of different values in the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field, and wherein only one of the different values may be placed in each of the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field on each occurrence of an instruction in the first instruction format in instruction streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert C. Valentine, Jesus Corbal San Adrian, Roger Espasa Sans, Robert D. Cavin, Bret L. Toll, Santiago Galan Duran, Jeffrey G. Wiedemeier, Sridhar Samudrala, Milind Baburao Girkar, Edward Thomas Grochowski, Jonathan Cannon Hall, Dennis R. Bradford, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, James C Abel, Mark Charney, Seth Abraham, Suleyman Sair, Andrew Thomas Forsyth, Lisa Wu, Charles Yount
  • Patent number: 11093277
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rajesh M. Sankaran, Gilbert Neiger, Narayan Ranganathan, Stephen R. Van Doren, Joseph Nuzman, Niall D. McDonnell, Michael A. O'Hanlon, Lokpraveen B. Mosur, Tracy Garrett Drysdale, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Asit K. Mishra, Ganesh Venkatesh, Deborah T. Marr, Nicholas P. Carter, Jonathan D. Pearce, Edward T. Grochowski, Richard J. Greco, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal, Thomas D. Fletcher, Dennis R. Bradford, Dwight P. Manley, Mark J. Charney, Jeffrey J. Cook, Paul Caprioli, Koichi Yamada, Kent D. Glossop, David B. Sheffield
  • Publication number: 20210081198
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for chained fused multiply add. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a decoder to decode a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, a first source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands of a first type that have packed data elements of a first size, a second source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and a field for a memory location that stores a scalar value. A register file having a plurality of packed data registers includes registers for the plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a first size, the source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and the destination operand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: JESUS CORBAL, ROBERT VALENTINE, ROMAN S. DUBTSOV, NIKITA A. SHUSTROV, MARK J. CHARNEY, DENNIS R. BRADFORD, MILIND B. GIRKAR, EDWARD T. GROCHOWSKI, THOMAS D. FLETCHER, WARREN E. FERGUSON
  • Publication number: 20200401440
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Rajesh M. SANKARAN, Gilbert NEIGER, Narayan RANGANATHAN, Stephen R. VAN DOREN, Joseph NUZMAN, Niall D. MCDONNELL, Michael A. O'HANLON, Lokpraveen B. MOSUR, Tracy Garrett DRYSDALE, Eriko NURVITADHI, Asit K. MISHRA, Ganesh VENKATESH, Deborah T. MARR, Nicholas P. CARTER, Jonathan D. PEARCE, Edward T. GROCHOWSKI, Richard J. GRECO, Robert VALENTINE, Jesus CORBAL, Thomas D. FLETCHER, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Dwight P. MANLEY, Mark J. CHARNEY, Jeffrey J. COOK, Paul CAPRIOLI, Koichi YAMADA, Kent D. GLOSSOP, David B. SHEFFIELD
  • Publication number: 20200394042
    Abstract: A vector friendly instruction format and execution thereof. According to one embodiment of the invention, a processor is configured to execute an instruction set. The instruction set includes a vector friendly instruction format. The vector friendly instruction format has a plurality of fields including a base operation field, a modifier field, an augmentation operation field, and a data element width field, wherein the first instruction format supports different versions of base operations and different augmentation operations through placement of different values in the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field, and wherein only one of the different values may be placed in each of the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field on each occurrence of an instruction in the first instruction format in instruction streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert C. VALENTINE, Jesus Corbal SAN ADRIAN, Roger Espasa SANS, Robert D. CAVIN, Bret L. TOLL, Santiago Galan DURAN, Jeffrey G. WIEDEMEIER, Sridhar SAMUDRALA, Milind Baburao GIRKAR, Edward Thomas GROCHOWSKI, Jonathan Cannon HALL, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, James C. ABEL, Mark CHARNEY, Seth ABRAHAM, Suleyman SAIR, Andrew Thomas FORSYTH, Lisa WU, Charles YOUNT
  • Patent number: 10853065
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for chained fused multiply add. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a decoder to decode a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, a first source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands of a first type that have packed data elements of a first size, a second source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and a field for a memory location that stores a scalar value. A register file having a plurality of packed data registers includes registers for the plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a first size, the source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and the destination operand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jesus Corbal, Robert Valentine, Roman S. Dubtsov, Nikita A. Shustrov, Mark J. Charney, Dennis R. Bradford, Milind B. Girkar, Edward T. Grochowski, Thomas D. Fletcher, Warren E. Ferguson
  • Patent number: 10795680
    Abstract: A vector friendly instruction format and execution thereof. According to one embodiment of the invention, a processor is configured to execute an instruction set. The instruction set includes a vector friendly instruction format. The vector friendly instruction format has a plurality of fields including a base operation field, a modifier field, an augmentation operation field, and a data element width field, wherein the first instruction format supports different versions of base operations and different augmentation operations through placement of different values in the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field, and wherein only one of the different values may be placed in each of the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field on each occurrence of an instruction in the first instruction format in instruction streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert C. Valentine, Jesus Corbal San Adrian, Roger Espasa Sans, Robert D. Cavin, Bret L. Toll, Santiago Galan Duran, Jeffrey G. Wiedemeier, Sridhar Samudrala, Milind Baburao Girkar, Edward Thomas Grochowski, Jonathan Cannon Hall, Dennis R. Bradford, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, James C. Abel, Mark Charney, Seth Abraham, Suleyman Sair, Andrew Thomas Forsyth, Lisa Wu, Charles Yount
  • Patent number: 10719320
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided which comprises: a component; a voltage generator to supply load current to the component; first one or more circuitries to predict that the load current is to increase from a first time; and second one or more circuitries to, in anticipation of the increase in the load current from the first time, cause the component to execute first instructions during a time period that occurs prior to the first time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Federico Ardanaz, Roger Gramunt, Jesus Corbal, Dennis R. Bradford, Jonathan M. Eastep
  • Patent number: 10678541
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a decode unit to decode a permute instruction and a vector conflict instruction. A vector execution unit is coupled with the decode unit and includes a fully-connected interconnect. The fully-connected interconnect has at least four inputs to receive at least four corresponding data elements of at least one source vector. The fully-connected interconnect has at least four outputs. Each of the at least four inputs is coupled with each of the at least four outputs. The execution unit also includes a permute instruction execution logic coupled with the at least four outputs and operable to store a first vector result in response to the permute instruction. The execution unit also includes a vector conflict instruction execution logic coupled with the at least four outputs and operable to store a second vector result in a destination storage location in response to the vector conflict instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Thomas Forsyth, Dennis R. Bradford
  • Publication number: 20190347125
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Rajesh M. SANKARAN, Gilbert NEIGER, Narayan RANGANATHAN, Stephen R. VAN DOREN, Joseph NUZMAN, Niall D. MCDONNELL, Michael A. O'HANLON, Lokpraveen B. MOSUR, Tracy Garrett DRYSDALE, Eriko NURVITADHI, Asit K. MISHRA, Ganesh VENKATESH, Deborah T. MARR, Nicholas P. CARTER, Jonathan D. PEARCE, Edward T. GROCHOWSKI, Richard J. GRECO, Robert VALENTINE, Jesus CORBAL, Thomas D. FLETCHER, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Dwight P. MANLEY, Mark J. CHARNEY, Jeffrey J. COOK, Paul CAPRIOLI, Koichi YAMADA, Kent D. GLOSSOP, David B. SHEFFIELD
  • Patent number: 10423421
    Abstract: A processor includes at least one processing core that includes an operation dispatch for dispatching operations from an instruction pipeline, a plurality of arithmetic logic units for executing the operations, a plurality of multiplexers, each of which connects the operation dispatch to a respective arithmetic logic unit, and a controller configured to selectively enable at least one multiplexer to connect the operation dispatch to at least one arithmetic logic unit based on a reliability mode associated with the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Dennis R. Bradford