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).

  • Publication number: 20230004387
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing a vector packed multiplication of signed and unsigned words. For example, one embodiment of a processor includes a decoder to decode a vector packed multiply instruction having operands to identify a first and a second plurality of packed words, first and second source registers to store the first and second plurality of packed words, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction. The execution circuitry includes multiplier circuitry to multiply each packed word in the first source register with a corresponding packed word in the second source register to generate a plurality of doubleword products and rounding circuitry to round each of the doubleword products according to a rounding method to generate a plurality of rounded doubleword products. Each upper word of the rounded doubleword results is then stored into a corresponding word data element positions of a destination register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Venkateswara Rao Madduri, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney
  • Publication number: 20230004390
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for multiplying packed real and imaginary components of complex numbers and complex conjugates. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a decoder to decode a first instruction to generate a decoded instruction; a first source register to store a first plurality of packed real and imaginary data elements; a second source register to store a second plurality of packed real and imaginary data elements; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction. The execution circuitry includes multiplier circuitry to multiply select real and imaginary data elements in the first and second source registers to generate a plurality of real and imaginary products; adder circuitry to add/subtract various real and imaginary products, scale the results according to an immediate of the instruction, round the scaled results; and saturation circuitry to saturate the rounded results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Venkateswara Rao Madduri, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney
  • Patent number: 11544058
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for fused multiple add. In some embodiments, a decoder decodes a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, and fields for a first, second, and third packed data source operand, wherein packed data elements of the first and second packed data source operand are of a first, different size than a second size of packed data elements of the third packed data operand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Galina Ryvchin, Piotr Majcher, Mark J. Charney, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jesus Corbal, Milind B. Girkar, Zeev Sperber, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein
  • Publication number: 20220414182
    Abstract: Techniques for matrix multiplication are described. In some examples, decode circuitry is to decode a single instruction having fields for an opcode, an indication of a location of a first source operand, an indication of a location of a second source operand, and an indication of a location of a destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to at least convert data elements of the first and second source operands from a first floating point representation to a second floating point representation, perform matrix multiplication with the converted data elements, and accumulate results of the matrix multiplication in the destination operand in the first floating point representation; and the execution circuitry is to execute to the decoded instruction as specified by the opcode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Menachem ADELMAN, Robert VALENTINE, Zeev SPERBER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Simon RUBANOVICH, Sagi MELLER, Christopher HUGHES, Evangelos GEORGANAS, Alexander HEINECKE, Mark CHARNEY
  • Publication number: 20220413861
    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: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Venkateswara MADDURI, Cristina ANDERSON, Robert VALENTINE, Mark CHARNEY, Vedvyas SHANBHOGUE
  • Publication number: 20220413853
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses to support packed data convolution instructions with shift control and width control are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: DEEPTI AGGARWAL, MICHAEL ESPIG, ROBERT VALENTINE, SUMIT MOHAN, PRAKARAM JOSHI, RICHARD WINTERTON
  • Patent number: 11526353
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for fused multiple add. In some embodiments, a decoder decodes a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, and fields for a first, second, and third packed data source operand, wherein packed data elements of the first and second packed data source operand are of a first, different size than a second size of packed data elements of the third packed data operand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Galina Ryvchin, Piotr Majcher, Mark J. Charney, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jesus Corbal, Milind B. Girkar, Zeev Sperber, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein
  • Patent number: 11526354
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for fused multiple add. In some embodiments, a decoder decodes a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, and fields for a first, second, and third packed data source operand, wherein packed data elements of the first and second packed data source operand are of a first, different size than a second size of packed data elements of the third packed data operand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Galina Ryvchin, Piotr Majcher, Mark J. Charney, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jesus Corbal, Milind B. Girkar, Zeev Sperber, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein
  • Publication number: 20220374278
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a processor that includes one or more processing elements associated with one or more instruction set architectures. The processor is configured to receive a request from an application executed by a first processing element of the one or more processing elements to enable a feature associated with an instruction set architecture. Additionally, the processor is configured to enable the application to utilize the feature without a system call occurring when the feature is associated with an instruction set architecture associated with the first processing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Toby Opferman, Eliezer Weissmann, Robert Valentine, Russell Cameron Arnold
  • Patent number: 11507376
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bret Toll, Alexander F. Heinecke, Christopher J. Hughes, Ronen Zohar, Michael Espig, Dan Baum, Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall
  • Patent number: 11507369
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for fused multiple add. In some embodiments, a decoder decodes a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, and fields for a first, second, and third packed data source operand, wherein packed data elements of the first and second packed data source operand are of a first, different size than a second size of packed data elements of the third packed data operand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Galina Ryvchin, Piotr Majcher, Mark J. Charney, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jesus Corbal, Milind B. Girkar, Zeev Sperber, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein
  • Patent number: 11500630
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is a processor including execution circuitry to, in response to a decoded instruction, convert a half-precision floating-point value to a single-precision floating-point value and store the single-precision floating-point value in each of the plurality of element locations of a destination register. The processor also includes a decoder and the destination register. The decoder is to decode an instruction to generate the decoded instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Mark Charney, Raanan Sade, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jesus Corbal
  • Publication number: 20220357950
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Raanan SADE, Robert VALENTINE, Bret TOLL, Christopher J. HUGHES, Alexander F. HEINECKE, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Mark J. CHARNEY
  • Publication number: 20220355148
    Abstract: An alternative to aqueous film forming foams containing fluorine for firefighting foams for flammable liquid fires is a mist of aqueous ethyleneamine polyphosphate solution or fumed silica doped ethyleneamine polyphosphate solution. The method consists of spraying a mist of such solutions into a flammable liquid fire to suppress the flames and cool the fire. The mist approach also suppresses flames of wood fires. An alternate approach is to add ethyleneamine polyphosphate or fumed silica doped ethyleneamine polyphosphate to a fluorine free foam to form a flame retarded foam that is able to smother a flammable liquid fire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Valentine Kasowski, Hahnah Seminara Kasowski
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20220326948
    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: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander F. HEINECKE, Robert VALENTINE, Mark J. CHARNEY, Raanan SADE, Menachem ADELMAN, Zeev SPERBER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Simon RUBANOVICH
  • Publication number: 20220326946
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing a transform on complex data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: VENKATESWARA MADDURI, ELMOUSTAPHA OULD-AHMED-VALL, MARK CHARNEY, ROBERT VALENTINE, JESUS CORBAL, BINWEI YANG
  • Publication number: 20220326949
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander F. HEINECKE, Robert VALENTINE, Mark J. CHARNEY, Raanan SADE, Menachem ADELMAN, Zeev SPERBER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Simon RUBANOVICH
  • Publication number: 20220318009
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to executing a vector multiplication instruction. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch the vector multiplication instruction having fields for an opcode, first and second source identifiers, and a destination identifier, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, execution circuitry to, on each of a plurality of corresponding pairs of fixed-sized elements of the identified first and second sources, execute the decoded instruction to generate a double-sized product of each pair of fixed-sized elements, the double-sized product being represented by at least twice a number of bits of the fixed size, and generate an unsigned fixed-sized result by rounding the most significant fixed-sized portion of the double-sized product to fit into the identified destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Venkateswara R. MADDURI, Carl MURRAY, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Mark J. CHARNEY, Robert VALENTINE, Jesus CORBAL
  • Publication number: 20220308873
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to interleaving data values. An embodiment includes decoding circuitry to decode a single instruction, the instruction having one or more fields to specify an opcode, one or more fields to specify a location of a first source operand, one or more fields to specify a location of a second source operand, one or more fields to specify a location of a destination operand, and one or more fields to specify an index value to be used to index a row in the first source operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate execution circuitry is to downconvert data elements of the indexed row of the first source operand, interleave the downconverted elements with data elements of the second source operand, and store the interleaved elements in the destination operand; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Menachem ADELMAN, Robert VALENTINE, Amit GRADSTEIN, Daniel TOWNER, Mark CHARNEY