Invention Application
- Patent Title: FLOATING-POINT CONVERSION VIA AN INTEGER UNIT
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Application No.: US18358304Application Date: 2023-07-25
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Publication No.: US20250036361A1Publication Date: 2025-01-30
- Inventor: Supratim Pal , Jiasheng Chen , Kevin Hurd , Jorge E. Parra Osorio , Christopher Spencer , Guei-Yuan Lueh , Pradeep K. Golconda , Fangwen Fu , Wei Xiong , Hongzheng Li , James Valerio , Mukundan Swaminathan , Nicholas Murphy , Shuai Mu , Clifford Gibson , Buqi Cheng
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Main IPC: G06F7/483
- IPC: G06F7/483

Abstract:
Described herein is a graphics processor comprising a memory interface and a graphics processing cluster coupled with the memory interface. The graphics processing cluster includes a multi-lane parallel floating-point unit and a multi-lane parallel integer unit. The multi-lane parallel integer unit includes an integer pipeline including a plurality of parallel integer logic units configured to perform integer compute operations on a plurality of input data elements and a format conversion pipeline including a plurality of parallel format conversion units configured to convert a plurality of input data elements from a first one of a plurality of datatype formats to a second one of the plurality of datatype formats, the plurality of datatype formats including integer and floating-point formats.
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