Patents by Inventor Robert Valentine

Robert Valentine 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: 12293186
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    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: 20250138823
    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: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Edward T. GROCHOWSKI, Asit K. MISHRA, Robert VALENTINE, Mark J. CHARNEY, Simon C. STEELY, JR.
  • Patent number: 12287843
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to accelerating multiplication of sparse matrices. In one example, a processor is to fetch and decode an instruction having fields to specify locations of first, second, and third matrices, and an opcode indicating the processor is to multiply and accumulate matching non-zero (NZ) elements of the first and second matrices with corresponding elements of the third matrix, and executing the decoded instruction as per the opcode to generate NZ bitmasks for the first and second matrices, broadcast up to two NZ elements at a time from each row of the first matrix and each column of the second matrix to a processing engine (PE) grid, each PE to multiply and accumulate matching NZ elements of the first and second matrices with corresponding elements of the third matrix. Each PE further to store an NZ element for use in a subsequent multiplications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Baum, Chen Koren, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Michael Espig, Christopher J. Hughes, Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Alexander F. Heinecke
  • Patent number: 12282525
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    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: 12282773
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Menachem Adelman, Robert Valentine, Zeev Sperber, Mark J. Charney, Bret L. Toll, Rinat Rappoport, Jesus Corbal, Dan Baum, Alexander F. Heinecke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Yuri Gebil, Raanan Sade
  • Publication number: 20250123881
    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: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    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, Jeffry J. COOK, Paul CAPRIOLI, Koichi YAMADA, Kent D. GLOSSOP, David B. SHEFFIELD
  • Patent number: 12277419
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to instructions to convert 16-bit floating-point formats are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch a single instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of a source vector comprising N plurality of 16-bit half-precision floating-point elements, and a destination vector to store N plurality of 16-bit bfloat floating-point elements, the opcode to indicate execution circuitry is to convert each of the elements of the source vector from 16-bit half-precision floating-point format to 16-bit bfloat floating-point format and store each converted element into a corresponding location of the destination vector, decode circuitry to decode the fetched single instruction into a decoded single instruction, and the execution circuitry to respond to the decoded single instruction as specified by the opcode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander F. Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Menachem Adelman, Christopher J. Hughes, Evangelos Georganas, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich
  • Publication number: 20250117221
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, support for a matrix transpose instruction is detailed. In some embodiments, decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode, a source matrix operand identifier, and a destination matrix operand identifier; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to transpose each row of elements of the identified source matrix operand into a corresponding column of the identified destination matrix operand are detailed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Robert VALENTINE, Dan BAUM, Zeev SPERBER, Jesus CORBAL, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Bret L. TOLL, Mark J. CHARNEY, Barukh ZIV, Alexander HEINECKE, Milind GIRKAR, Menachem ADELMAN, Simon RUBANOVICH
  • Publication number: 20250117218
    Abstract: Techniques for converting FP16 to BF8 using bias are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander Heinecke, Naveen Mellempudi, Robert Valentine, Mark Charney, Christopher Hughes, Evangelos Georganas, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich
  • Publication number: 20250117222
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, matrix (tile) multiply accumulate and negated matrix (tile) multiply accumulate are discussed. For example, in some embodiments decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode, an identifier for a first source matrix operand, an identifier of a second source matrix operand, and an identifier for a source/destination matrix operand; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to multiply the identified first source matrix operand by the identified second source matrix operand, add a result of the multiplication to the identified source/destination matrix operand, and store a result of the addition in the identified source/destination matrix operand and zero unconfigured columns of identified source/destination matrix operand are detailed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Robert VALENTINE, Zeev SPERBER, Mark J. CHARNEY, Bret L. TOLL, Rinat RAPPOPORT, Stanislav SHWARTSMAN, Dan BAUM, Igor YANOVER, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Menachem ADELMAN, Jesus CORBAL, Yuri GEBIL, Simon RUBANOVICH
  • Publication number: 20250117217
    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: October 24, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander F. HEINECKE, Robert VALENTINE, Mark J. CHARNEY, Raanan SADE, Menachem ADELMAN, Zeev SPERBER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Simon RUBANOVICH
  • Patent number: 12265826
    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 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    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: 12260213
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, support for matrix (tile) addition, subtraction, and multiplication is described. For example, circuitry to support instructions for element-by-element matrix (tile) addition, subtraction, and multiplication are detailed. In some embodiments, for matrix (tile) addition, decode circuitry is to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode, a first source matrix operand identifier, a second source matrix operand identifier, and a destination matrix operand identifier; and execution circuitry is to execute the decoded instruction to, for each data element position of the identified first source matrix operand: add a first data value at that data element position to a second data value at a corresponding data element position of the identified second source matrix operand, and store a result of the addition into a corresponding data element position of the identified destination matrix operand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Dan Baum, Zeev Sperber, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Bret L. Toll, Mark J. Charney, Barukh Ziv, Alexander Heinecke, Milind Girkar, Simon Rubanovich
  • Patent number: 12236242
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    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: 20250060963
    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: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    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: 12229554
    Abstract: Techniques for performing BF16 FMA in response to an instruction are described. In some examples, an instruction has fields for an opcode, an identification of location of a packed data source/destination operand (a first source), an identification of a location of a second packed data source operand, an identification of a location of a third packed data source operand, and an identification of location of a packed data source/destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate operand ordering and that execution circuitry is to, per data element position, perform a BF16 value fused multiply-accumulate operation using the first, second, and third source operands and store a result in a corresponding data element position of the source/destination operand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Heinecke, Menachem Adelman, Robert Valentine, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein, Mark Charney, Evangelos Georganas, Dhiraj Kalamkar, Christopher Hughes, Cristina Anderson
  • Publication number: 20250045022
    Abstract: Complex matrix transpose and multiply operations are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Menachem ADELMAN, Robert VALENTINE, Daniel TOWNER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Mark CHARNEY
  • Patent number: 12216734
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for complex matrix conjugation and multiplication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Menachem Adelman, Robert Valentine, Daniel Towner, Amit Gradstein, Mark Jay Charney
  • Patent number: 12204903
    Abstract: Techniques for matrix multiplication are described. In some examples, a single instruction having a format of fields for an opcode, one or more fields to indicate a location of a source/destination operand, one or more fields to indicate a location of a first source operand, and one or more fields to indicate a location of a second source operand is used. Wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to: multiply values from corresponding data elements of the first and second sources, add a first subset of the multiplied values to a first value from the source/destination operand and store in a first data element position of the source/destination operand, and add a second subset of the multiplied values to a second value from the source/destination operand and store in a second data element position of the source/destination operand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Venkateswara Madduri, Cristina Anderson, Robert Valentine, Mark Charney, Vedvyas Shanbhogue
  • Patent number: 12204898
    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: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Edward T. Grochowski, Asit K. Mishra, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Simon C. Steely, Jr.