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: 20220206805
    Abstract: Techniques for converting FP16 data elements to BF8 data elements using a single instruction are described. An exemplary apparatus includes decoder circuitry to decode a single instruction, the single instruction to include a one or more fields to identify a source operand, one or more fields to identify a destination operand, and one or more fields for an opcode, the opcode to indicate that execution circuitry is to convert packed half-precision floating-point data from the identified source to packed bfloat8 data and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions of the identified destination operand; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode to convert packed half-precision floating-point data from the identified source to packed bfloat8 data and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander Heinecke, Naveen Mellempudi, Robert Valentine, Mark Charney, Christopher Hughes, Evangelos Georganas, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich
  • Publication number: 20220206825
    Abstract: Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide an initialization technique that enables the initialization of multiple states in an efficient manner. The initialization technique includes a register to track usage of state components of the processor and a decode unit to decode a state initialization instruction. The state initialization instruction indicates that of the state components are to be initialized. The initialization technique also includes an execution unit coupled with the decode unit. The execution unit, in response to the state initialization instruction, is to initialize the state components without reading another state component from memory as part of the initialization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Abhimanyu Kanaiya Varde, Karuna Ramkumar, Robert Valentine
  • Patent number: 11372643
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander F. Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Raanan Sade, Menachem Adelman, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich
  • Publication number: 20220197654
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for complex matrix conjugation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Menachem ADELMAN, Robert VALENTINE, Daniel TOWNER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Mark Jay CHARNEY
  • Publication number: 20220197601
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for complex matrix transpose and multiply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Menachem ADELMAN, Robert VALENTINE, Daniel TOWNER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Mark Jay CHARNEY
  • Publication number: 20220197975
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for complex matrix conjugation and multiplication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Menachem ADELMAN, Robert VALENTINE, Daniel TOWNER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Mark Jay CHARNEY
  • Publication number: 20220197635
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a processor includes: a fetch circuit to fetch instructions, the instructions including a sum of squared differences (SSD) instruction; a decode circuit to decode the SSD instruction; and an execution circuit to, during an execution of the decoded SSD instruction, generate an SSD output vector based on a plurality of input vectors, the SSD output vector including a plurality of squared differences values. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Deepti AGGARWAL, Michael ESPIG, Chekib NOUIRA, Robert VALENTINE, Mark CHARNEY
  • Patent number: 11366663
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander F. Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Raanan Sade, Menachem Adelman, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich
  • Patent number: 11360770
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, performing a matrix operation of zeroing a matrix in response to a single instruction. For example, a processor detailed which includes decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode and a source/destination matrix operand identifier; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to zero each data element of the identified source/destination matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Menachem Adelman, Zeev Sperber, Mark J. Charney, Bret L. Toll, Jesus Corbal, Alexander F. Heinecke, Barukh Ziv, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Stanislav Shwartsman
  • Patent number: 11354124
    Abstract: An apparatus is described having instruction execution logic circuitry to execute first, second, third and fourth instruction. Both the first instruction and the second instruction insert a first group of input vector elements to one of multiple first non overlapping sections of respective first and second resultant vectors. The first group has a first bit width. Each of the multiple first non overlapping sections have a same bit width as the first group. Both the third instruction and the fourth instruction insert a second group of input vector elements to one of multiple second non overlapping sections of respective third and fourth resultant vectors. The second group has a second bit width that is larger than said first bit width. Each of the multiple second non overlapping sections have a same bit width as the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal, Bret L. Toll, Mark J. Charney, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein
  • Publication number: 20220171627
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to matrix compress/decompress instructions. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch a compress instruction having a format with fields to specify an opcode and locations of decompressed source and compressed destination matrices, decode circuitry to decode the fetched compress instructions, and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded compress instruction, to: generate a compressed result according to a compress algorithm by compressing the specified decompressed source matrix by either packing non-zero-valued elements together and storing the matrix position of each non-zero-valued element in a header, or using fewer bits to represent one or more elements and using the header to identify matrix elements being represented by fewer bits; and store the compressed result to the specified compressed destination matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Dan BAUM, Michael ESPIG, James GUILFORD, Wajdi K. FEGHALI, Raanan SADE, Christopher J. HUGHES, Robert VALENTINE, Bret TOLL, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Mark J. CHARNEY, Vinodh GOPAL, Ronen ZOHAR, Alexander F. HEINECKE
  • Publication number: 20220171624
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for multiplying packed real and imaginary components of complex numbers are described. A processor embodiment includes: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: VENKATESWARA MADDURI, ELMOUSTAPHA OULD-AHMED-VALL, JESUS CORBAL, MARK CHARNEY, ROBERT VALENTINE, BINWEI YANG
  • Publication number: 20220171623
    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: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: 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: 11347502
    Abstract: An apparatus is described having instruction execution logic circuitry to execute first, second, third and fourth instruction. Both the first instruction and the second instruction insert a first group of input vector elements to one of multiple first non overlapping sections of respective first and second resultant vectors. The first group has a first bit width. Each of the multiple first non overlapping sections have a same bit width as the first group. Both the third instruction and the fourth instruction insert a second group of input vector elements to one of multiple second non overlapping sections of respective third and fourth resultant vectors. The second group has a second bit width that is larger than said first bit width. Each of the multiple second non overlapping sections have a same bit width as the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal, Bret L. Toll, Mark J. Charney, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11334319
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for multiplying packed unsigned words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Venkateswara Rao Madduri, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Robert Valentine
  • Publication number: 20220129267
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing right-shifting operations on packed quadword data. For example, one processor embodiment comprises a decoder to decode a right-shift instruction, a first source register to store a plurality of packed quadword data elements, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded right-shift instruction. The execution circuitry comprises shift circuitry with sign preservation logic to right-shift first and second packed quadword data elements in the first source register by an amount specified in an immediate value or in a control value in a second source register, the right-shifting to generate first and second right-shifted quadwords, the sign preservation logic to shift in the sign bit. The execution circuitry is to cause selection of 32 most significant bits of the first and second right-shifted quadwords to be written to 32 least significant bit positions of first and second quadword data element locations of a destination register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Venkateswara MADDURI, ElMoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Robert VALENTINE, Mark CHARNEY
  • Publication number: 20220129268
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing right-shifting operations on packed quadword data. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises a decoder to decode a right-shift instruction, a first source register to store a plurality of packed quadword data elements, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded right-shift instruction. The execution circuitry comprises shift circuitry with sign preservation logic to right-shift first and second packed quadword data elements in the first source register by an amount specified in an immediate value or in a control value in a second source register, the right-shifting to generate first and second right-shifted quadwords, the sign preservation logic to shift in the sign bit. The execution circuitry is to cause selection of 16 most significant bits of the first and second right-shifted quadwords to be written to 16 least significant bit regions of first and second quadword data element locations of a destination register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Venkateswara MADDURI, ElMoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Robert VALENTINE, Mark CHARNEY
  • Publication number: 20220129264
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is a processor including execution circuitry to calculate, in response to a decoded instruction, a result of a complex multiplication of a first complex number and a second complex number. The calculation includes a first operation to calculate a first term of a real component of the result and a first term of the imaginary component of the result. The calculation also includes a second operation to calculate a second term of the real component of the result and a second term of the imaginary component of the result. The processor also includes a decoder, a first source register, and a second source register. The decoder is to decode an instruction to generate the decoded instruction. The first source register is to provide the first complex number and the second source register is to provide the second complex number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Mark Charney, Raanan Sade, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jesus Corbal, Roman S. Dubtsov
  • Publication number: 20220129273
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing signed multiplication of packed signed doublewords and accumulation with a signed quadword. For example, one exemplary processor comprises three registers and execution circuitry. The execution circuitry is to multiply first and second packed signed doubleword data elements from the first register with third and fourth packed signed doubleword data elements from the second register, respectively, to generate first and second temporary products. It is also to select first, second, third, and fourth signed doubleword data elements. It is also to combine the first temporary products with a first packed signed quadword value read from the third register to generate a first accumulated result and to combine the second temporary product with a second packed signed quadword value read from the third source register to generate a second accumulated result. The third register is to store the results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: ElMoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Robert VALENTINE, Mark CHARNEY, Jesus CORBAL, Venkateswara MADDURI