Method and apparatus for executing instructions for a vector processing system
CA 1316607 C · Owner: Supnik, Robert · Inventors: Bhandarkar, Dileep P.; Manley, Dwight; Fossum, Tryggve
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A data processing system containing a vector processor and a scalar processor executes scalar and vector instructions which both comprise an operation portion and an operand pointer portion. In the vector instructions, however the operand pointer, portion contains an operand specifier which identifies a vector control word. Each vector control word contains for the corre-, sponding vector instruction flags and vector operand pointers. The vector operand pointers specify vector registers in the vector processor. The flags contain additional information for the execution of the vector instructions.
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- Granted April 20, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 20, 2010.
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