Patents by Inventor Mark J. Charney

Mark J. Charney 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: 10445092
    Abstract: A processor for performing a vector permute comprises: a source vector register to store a plurality of source data elements; a destination vector register to store a plurality of destination data elements; a control vector register to store a plurality of control data elements, each control data element corresponding to one of the destination data elements and including an N bit value indicating whether a source data element is to be copied to the corresponding destination data element; vector permute logic to compare the N bit value of each control data element to an N bit portion of an immediate to determine whether to copy a source data element to the corresponding destination data element, wherein if the N bit values match, then the vector permute logic is to identify a source data element using an index value included in the control data element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jesus Corbal San Adrian, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Milind B. Girkar, Bret L. Toll, Roger Espasa, Guillem Sole, Jairo Balart, Brian Hickman
  • Patent number: 10423411
    Abstract: A processor includes a decode unit to decode an instruction that is to indicate a first source packed data operand that is to include at least four data elements, to indicate a second source packed data operand that is to include at least four data elements, and to indicate one or more destination storage locations. The execution unit, in response to the instruction, is to store at least one result mask operand in the destination storage location(s). The at least one result mask operand is to include a different mask element for each corresponding data element in one of the first and second source packed data operands in a same relative position. Each mask element is to indicate whether the corresponding data element in said one of the source packed data operands equals any of the data elements in the other of the source packed data operands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Asit K. Mishra, Edward T. Grochowski, Jonathan D. Pearce, Deborah T. Marr, Ehud Cohen, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jesus Corbal San Adrian, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Christopher J. Hughes, Milind B. Girkar
  • Patent number: 10372449
    Abstract: A method of an aspect includes receiving a packed data operation mask concatenation instruction. The packed data operation mask concatenation instruction indicates a first source having a first packed data operation mask, indicates a second source having a second packed data operation mask, and indicates a destination. A result is stored in the destination in response to the packed data operation mask concatenation instruction. The result includes the first packed data operation mask concatenated with the second packed data operation mask. Other methods, apparatus, systems, and instructions are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bret L. Toll, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal San Andrian, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Mark J. Charney
  • Patent number: 10296489
    Abstract: A processor including a first vector register for storing a plurality of source data elements, a second vector register for storing a plurality of control elements, and a vector bit shuffle logic. Each of the control elements in the first vector register corresponds to a different source data element and includes a plurality of bit fields. Each of the bit fields is associated with a single corresponding bit position in a destination mask register and identifies a single bit from the corresponding source data element to be copied to the single corresponding bit position in the destination mask register. The vector bit shuffle logic is to read the bit fields from the second vector register and, for each bit field, to identify a single bit from a single corresponding source data element and copy it to a single corresponding bit position in the destination mask register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jesus Corbal San Adrian, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Guillem Sole, Roger Espasa
  • Patent number: 10296347
    Abstract: Fusible instructions and logic provide OR-test and AND-test functionality on multiple test sources. Some embodiments include a processor decode stage to decode a test instruction for execution, the instruction specifying first, second and third source data operands, and an operation type. Execution units, responsive to the decoded test instruction, perform one logical operation, according to the specified operation type, between data from the first and second source data operands, and perform a second logical operation between the data from the third source data operand and the result of the first logical operation to set a condition flag. Some embodiments generate the test instruction dynamically by fusing one logical instruction with a prior-art test instruction. Other embodiments generate the test instruction through a just-in-time compiler. Some embodiments also fuse the test instruction with a subsequent conditional branch instruction, and perform a branch according to how the condition flag is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Maxim Loktyukhin, Robert Valentine, Julian C. Horn, Mark J. Charney
  • Patent number: 10296334
    Abstract: Apparatus, method, and system for performing a vector bit gather are describe herein. One embodiment of a processor includes: a first vector register storing one or more source data elements, a second vector register storing one or more control elements, and a vector bit gather logic. Each of the control elements includes a plurality of bit fields, each of which is associated with a plurality of corresponding bit positions in a destination vector register and is to identify a bit from the one or more corresponding source data element to be copied to each of the plurality of corresponding bit positions. The vector bit shuffle logic is to read the bit fields from the second vector register and, for each bit field, to identify a bit from the source data elements and responsively copy it to each of the plurality of corresponding bit positions in the destination vector register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal San Adrian, Mark J. Charney, Guillem Sole, Roger Espasa
  • Patent number: 10275243
    Abstract: A processor of an aspect includes a decode unit to decode a matrix multiplication instruction. The matrix multiplication instruction is to indicate a first memory location of a first source matrix, is to indicate a second memory location of a second source matrix, and is to indicate a third memory location where a result matrix is to be stored. The processor also includes an execution unit coupled with the decode unit. The execution unit, in response to the matrix multiplication instruction, is to multiply a portion of the first and second source matrices prior to an interruption, and store a completion progress indicator in response to the interruption. The completion progress indicator to indicate an amount of progress in multiplying the first and second source matrices, and storing corresponding result data to the third memory location, that is to have been completed prior to the interruption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Edward T. Grochowski, Asit K. Mishra, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Simon C. Steely, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10255072
    Abstract: A processor of an aspect includes a decode unit to decode an instruction. The instruction is to explicitly specify a first architectural register and is to implicitly indicate at least a second architectural register. The second architectural register is implicitly to be at a higher register number than the first architectural register. The processor also includes an architectural register replacement unit coupled with the decode unit. The architectural register replacement unit is to replace the first architectural register with a third architectural register, and is to replace the second architectural register with a fourth architectural register. The third architectural register is to be at a lower register number than the first architectural register. The fourth architectural register is to be at a lower register number than the second architectural register. Other processors are also disclosed, as are methods and systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mark J. Charney, Robert Valentine, Milind B. Girkar, Ashish Jha, Bret L. Toll, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jesus Corbal San Adrian, Jason W. Brandt
  • Patent number: 10203955
    Abstract: Instructions and logic provide SIMD vector packed tuple cross-comparison functionality. Some processor embodiments include first and second registers with a variable plurality of data fields, each of the data fields to store an element of a first data type. The processor executes a SIMD instruction for vector packed tuple cross-comparison in some embodiments, which for each data field of a portion of data fields in a tuple of the first register, compares its corresponding element with every element of a corresponding portion of data fields in a tuple of the second register and sets a mask bit corresponding to each element of the second register portion, in a bit-mask corresponding to each unmasked element of the corresponding first register portion, according to the corresponding comparison. In some embodiments bit-masks are shifted by corresponding elements in data fields of a third register. The comparison type is indicated by an immediate operand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Christopher J. Hughes, Mark J. Charney, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Yuri Gebil
  • Patent number: 10203954
    Abstract: Instructions and logic provide conversions between a mask register and a general purpose register or memory. Some embodiments, responsive to an instruction specifying: a destination operand, a mask length corresponding to a number of mask data fields, and a source operand; values are read from data fields in the source operand, corresponding to the specified mask length, and stored to corresponding data fields in the destination operand specified by the instruction, wherein one of the source or the destination operands is a mask register. Values indicative of masked vector elements may be stored to any data fields in the destination operand other than the number of data fields corresponding to the specified mask length. For some embodiments, the other one of the source or the destination operands may be a general purpose register or a memory location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jesus Corbal, Robert Valentine, Bret L. Toll, Mark J. Charney
  • Publication number: 20190042256
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to systems and methods to zero a tile register pair. In one example, a processor includes decode circuitry to decode a matrix pair zeroing instruction having fields for an opcode and an identifier to identify a destination matrix having a PAIR parameter equal to TRUE; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded matrix pair zeroing instruction to zero every element of a left matrix and a right matrix of the identified destination matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman, Eyal Hadas
  • Publication number: 20190042541
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. For example, embodiments of instruction support for matrix (tile) dot product operations are detailed. Exemplary instructions including computing a dot product of signed words and accumulating in a quadword data elements of a matrix pair. Additionally, in some instances, non-accumulating quadword data elements of the matrix pair are set to zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Publication number: 20190042254
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to systems and methods to load a tile register pair. In one example, a processor includes: decode circuitry to decode a load matrix pair instruction having fields for an opcode and source and destination identifiers to identify source and destination matrices, respectively, each matrix having a PAIR parameter equal to TRUE; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded load matrix pair instruction to load every element of left and right tiles of the identified destination matrix from corresponding element positions of left and right tiles of the identified source matrix, respectively, wherein the executing operates on one row of the identified destination matrix at a time, starting with the first row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Publication number: 20190042255
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to systems and methods to store a tile register pair to memory. In one example, a processor includes: decode circuitry to decode a store matrix pair instruction having fields for an opcode and source and destination identifiers to identify source and destination matrices, respectively, each matrix having a PAIR parameter equal to TRUE; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded store matrix pair instruction to store every element of left and right tiles of the identified source matrix to corresponding element positions of left and right tiles of the identified destination matrix, respectively, wherein the executing stores a chunk of C elements of one row of the identified source matrix at a time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Publication number: 20190042235
    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 identified destination matrix to generate eight products by multiplying each nibble of a doubleword element (M,K) of the identified first source matrix by a corresponding nibble of a doubleword element (K,N) of the identified second source matrix, and to accumulate and saturate the eight products with previous contents of the doubleword element (M,N).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Publication number: 20190042540
    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 store configuration information about usage of storage for two-dimensional data structures at the memory address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Patent number: 10175990
    Abstract: According to a first aspect, efficient data transfer operations can be achieved by: decoding by a processor device, a single instruction specifying a transfer operation for a plurality of data elements between a first storage location and a second storage location; issuing the single instruction for execution by an execution unit in the processor; detecting an occurrence of an exception during execution of the single instruction; and in response to the exception, delivering pending traps or interrupts to an exception handler prior to delivering the exception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hughes, Yen-Kuang (Y. K.) Chen, Mayank Bomb, Jason W. Brandt, Mark J. Buxton, Mark J. Charney, Srinivas Chennupaty, Jesus Corbal, Martin G. Dixon, Milind B. Girkar, Jonathan C. Hall, Hideki (Saito) Ido, Peter Lachner, Gilbert Neiger, Chris J. Newburn, Rajesh S. Parthasarathy, Bret L. Toll, Robert Valentine, Jeffrey G. Wiedemeier
  • Patent number: 10146535
    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 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporatoin
    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: 10114651
    Abstract: According to a first aspect, efficient data transfer operations can be achieved by: decoding by a processor device, a single instruction specifying a transfer operation for a plurality of data elements between a first storage location and a second storage location; issuing the single instruction for execution by an execution unit in the processor; detecting an occurrence of an exception during execution of the single instruction; and in response to the exception, delivering pending traps or interrupts to an exception handler prior to delivering the exception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Hughes, Yen-Kuang (Y. K.) Chen, Mayank Bomb, Jason W. Brandt, Mark J. Buxton, Mark J. Charney, Srinivas Chennupaty, Jesus Corbal, Martin G. Dixon, Milind B. Girkar, Jonathan C. Hall, Hideki (Saito) Ido, Peter Lachner, Gilbert Neiger, Chris J. Newburn, Rajesh S. Parthasarathy, Bret L. Toll, Robert Valentine, Jeffrey G. Wiedemeier
  • Patent number: 10083316
    Abstract: An apparatus is described that includes an execution unit to execute a first instruction and a second instruction. The execution unit includes input register space to store a first data structure to be replicated when executing the first instruction and to store a second data structure to be replicated when executing the second instruction. The first and second data structures are both packed data structures. Data values of the first packed data structure are twice as large as data values of the second packed data structure. The execution unit also includes replication logic circuitry to replicate the first data structure when executing the first instruction to create a first replication data structure, and, to replicate the second data structure when executing the second data instruction to create a second replication data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal, Bret L. Toll, Mark J. Charney