Patents by Inventor ERIC S. SPRANGLE

ERIC S. SPRANGLE 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).

  • Performing a multiply-multiply-accumulate instruction
    Patent number: 8478969
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor having multiple execution units, at least one of which includes a circuit having a multiply-accumulate (MAC) unit including multiple multipliers and adders, and to execute a user-level multiply-multiply-accumulate instruction to populate a destination storage with a plurality of elements each corresponding to an absolute value for a pixel of a pixel block. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Eric S. Sprangle
  • PERFORMING A MULTIPLY-MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE INSTRUCTION
    Publication number: 20120079252
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor having multiple execution units, at least one of which includes a circuit having a multiply-accumulate (MAC) unit including multiple multipliers and adders, and to execute a user-level multiply-multiply-accumulate instruction to populate a destination storage with a plurality of elements each corresponding to an absolute value for a pixel of a pixel block. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Inventor: ERIC S. SPRANGLE