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An efficient method of generating a bit-reverse index array in real time without performing any bit manipulation for a wireless communication system.

A microprocessor integrated circuit including a processing unit disposed upon an integrated circuit substrate is disclosed herein. The processing unit is designed to operate in accordance with a predefined sequence of program instructions stored within an instruction register. A memory, capable of storing information provided by the processing unit and occupying a larger area of the integrated circuit substrate than the processing unit, is also provided within the microprocessor integrated circuit. The memory may be implemented using, for example dynamic or static random-access memory. A variable output frequency system clock, such as generated by a ring oscillator, is also disposed on the integrated circuit substrate.

Methods and apparatuses for transposing a matrix using a vector look up unit. In one aspect of the invention, a method for matrix transposition includes: rotating in a vector register a first row of a matrix to generate a first row, of elements; writing simultaneously into a plurality of look up units the first row of elements indexed by a first row of indices in a vector register; looking up simultaneously from the plurality of look up units a second row of elements indexed by a second row of indices in a vector register; and rotating in a vector register the second row of elements to generate a third row of elements.

An online video search system, including a tag discoverer including a web encyclopedia crawler for (i) accessing a web encyclopedia to find web pages related to at least one designated reference topic, and (ii) retrieving a plurality of web pages by performing an n-level depth recursive traversal of the web pages found, and web pages that are hyper-linked thereto, a concept extractor for extracting important concepts founds in the retrieved plurality of web pages, and a user interface for providing at least of the important concepts extracted by the web page processor to an online video search engine. A method and a computer-readable storage medium are also described and claimed.

A memory system can store data in either a big endian mode or a little endian mode. Memory accessing logic 810 utilises byte invariant addressing to retrieve multiple data elements from that memory to be stored within a SIMD register 812. Data element reordering logic 808 is responsive to an endianess mode specifying signal and a data element size specifying signal to reorder retrieved bytes such that the data elements when stored within the SIMD registers 812 are invariant irrespective of the endianess mode being used by the memory.

The invention discloses an apparatus and a method used for executing matrix multiplication operation. The apparatus is characterized by comprising a storage unit used for storing matrix data related with a matrix operation instruction, a register unit used for storing scalar data related with the matrix operation instruction, a control unit used for decoding the matrix operation instruction and controlling an operation process of the matrix operation instruction, and a matrix operation unit used for performing the matrix multiplication operation on an input matrix according to the decoded matrix operation instruction, wherein the matrix operation unit is a customized hardware circuit.

A method for generating a permutation index vector includes receiving a condition vector and performing an index generation function using the condition vector in order to generate the permutation index vector. An index vector generation circuit is also disclosed.

Structures and protocols are presented for configuring an unmanned aerial device to perform a task, alone or in combination with other entities, or for using data resulting from such a configuration or performance.

A method is provided for extending a sequence repetition period of a random number generator in systems based on the availability of random sequences. The method includes performing RNS arithmetic operations to express a random number in a sequence as RNS residue values. Each generated random number has a value between zero and n!−1. The method also includes converting each of the RNS residue values to a relatively prime base number system so that each of the RNS residue values includes at least one digit. The method further includes generating an arbitrary permutation ordering of output sequence numbers using a select combination of digits associated with each of the RNS residue values. The arbitrary permutation ordering is applied to a cyclic structure having n elements. Each of the n elements has an associated output sequence number.

An apparatus and method are provided for performing an addition operation on operands A and B in order to produce a result R, the operands A and B and the result R being floating point values each having a significand and an exponent. The apparatus comprises prediction circuitry for generating a shift indication based on a prediction of the number of leading zeros that would be present in an output produced by subjecting the operands A and B to an unlike signed addition. Further, result pre-normalization circuitry performs a shift operation on the significands of both operand A and operand B prior to addition of the significands, this serving to discard a number of most significant bits of the significands of both operands as determined by the shift indication in order to produce modified significands for operands A and B. Operand analysis circuitry detects, with reference to the exponents of operands A and B, the presence of a leading bit cancellation condition, and addition circuitry is configured, in the presence of the leading bit cancellation condition, to perform an addition of the modified significands for operands A and B, in order to produce the significand of the result R. Such an approach provides a particularly simple and efficient apparatus for performing addition operations.

Mechanisms are provided for dynamic data driven alignment and data formatting in a floating point SIMD architecture. At least two operand inputs are input to a permute unit of a processor. Each operand input contains at least one floating point value upon which a permute operation is to be performed by the permute unit. A control vector input, having a plurality of floating point values that together constitute the control vector input, is input to the permute unit of the processor for controlling the permute operation of the permute unit. The permute unit performs a permute operation on the at least two operand inputs according to a permutation pattern specified by the plurality of floating point values that constitute the control vector input. Moreover, a result output of the permute operation is output from the permute unit to a result vector register of the processor.

A system and method for successively transposing a matrix is disclosed. The device includes a plurality of data storage elements arranged as a two dimensional (2D) structure including X rows and Y columns. The device further includes write control logic coupled to the input of plurality of data storage elements for writing data in at least one virtual row. The device also includes read control logic coupled to the output of the plurality of data storage elements for reading the data from at least one virtual column, where the data write to the at least one virtual row and the data read from the at least one virtual column are performed substantially simultaneously during each cycle of operation such that the 2D structure is transposed successively with zero cycle delay between successive transposes.

A cloud infrastructure is enhanced to provide a context-based security assurance service to enable secure application deployment. The service inspects network and cloud topologies to identify potential security capabilities and needs. Preferably, these options are then surfaced to the user with easy-to-understand, pre-configured templates representing security assurance levels. When a template (e.g., representing a pre-configured assurance level) is selected by the user, the system then applies specific capabilities and controls to translate the user-selected generalized specification (e.g., “high security”) into granular requirements for a specific set of security resources. Preferably, the identification of these security resources is based on system configuration, administration, and information associated with the pre-configured template.

An arithmetic unit, for example a multiply and accumulate (MAC) unit 42, for a processing engine includes a partial product reduction tree 480. The partial product reduction tree will generate carry results and provides a final output to a final adder 470 connected to the partial production reduction tree. Unbiased rounding logic 476 is provided. A carry propagation tree is responsive to the carry results for anticipating a zero on each of N least significant bits of the final adder. When zero is anticipated on each of N least significant bits of the final adder, the carry propagation tree is operable to generate an output signal 477 which is used by the unbiased rounding stage to force the (N+1)th least significant bit of the final adder to zero. Through the use of a carry propagation tree to predict, or anticipate zeros on the N least significant bits, unbiased rounding can be effected without a time penalty in that a carry propagation tree can be configured to be at least a rapid as the carry propagation of the final adder. Where a zero anticipation function is provided, this can also be mapped onto the carry propagation tree, thus providing an efficient hardware implementation through sharing of that hardware between functions.

An apparatus (10) for generating a sequence of blocks of randomly permuted multi-bit data elements includes an input register (12) that produces a repeating block of distinct input data elements from which output blocks of permuted data elements are generated. A permutation logic unit (14) forms an output data element from each input data element in accordance with random data stored in random code memories (16). The output data element produced by the permutation logic unit is supplied to an output register (18). The manner in which the random data is selected and applied by the permutation logic unit ensures that each of the data elements in the input block will be mapped into an output position in the output block.

This invention discloses a group of instructions, block4 and block4v, in a matrix processor 16 that rearranges data between vector and matrix forms of an A×B matrix of data 120 where the data matrix includes one or more 4×4 sub-matrices of data 160-166. The instructions of this invention simultaneously swaps row or columns between the first 140, second 142, third 144, and fourth 146 matrix registers according to the instructions that perform predefined matrix tensor operations on the data matrix that includes one of the following group of operations: swapping rows between the different individual matrix registers, or swapping columns between the different individual matrix registers. Additionally, successive iterations or combinations of the block4 and or block4v instructions perform standard tensor matrix operations from the following group of matrix operations: transpose, shuffle, and deal.

A method and system for correctly processing both big endian and little endian vector data. If the vector has a little endian data order, each piece of data (such as a byte) within the vector is processed in order. If the vector has a big endian data order, each vector element is processed in order, but each piece of data within each vector element is processed in reverse order.

The present invention provides permutation instructions which can be used in software executed in a programmable processor for solving permutation problems in cryptography, multimedia and other applications. PPERM and PPERM3R instructions are defined to perform permutations by a sequence of instructions with each sequence specifying the position in the source for each bit in the destination. In the PPERM instruction bits in the destination register that change are updated and bits in the destination register that do not change are set to zero. In the PPERM3R instruction bits in the destination register that change are updated and bits in the destination register that do not change are copied from intermediate result of previous PPERM3R instructions. Both PPERM and PPERM3R instruction can individually do permutation with bit repetition. Both PPERM and PPERM3R instruction can individually do permutation of bits stored in more than one register. In an alternate embodiment, a GRP instruction is defined to perform permutations. The GRP instruction divides the initial sequence in the source register into two groups depending on control bits. The first group is combined with the second group to form an intermediate sequence toward the desired final permutation. The total number of GRP instructions for a bit level permutation of n bits is not greater than 1gn. The GRP instruction can be used to permute k-bit subwords packed into an n bits word, where k can be 1, 2, . . . , or n bits, and k*r=n. At most 1gr permutation instructions are used in the permutation instruction sequence, where r is the number of k-bit subwords to be permuted. The GRP instruction can also be used to permute 2n bits stored in two n-bit registers. The total number of instructions for bit permutation of 2n bits is 21gn+4, and two of those instructions are SHIFT PAIR instruction.