Jack Kang - Sunnyvale CA, US Jianwei Bei - Rockville MD, US Shanker Rao Donthineni - Germantown MD, US Manish Kumar - Clarksburg MD, US Victor Lin - Fremont CA, US Justin Lau - Daly City CA, US
Assignee:
Marvell International Ltd. - Hamilton
International Classification:
G06F 9/30
US Classification:
712221
Abstract:
A hardware module configured to perform single instructions faster than is possible in software running on the microprocessor. In one implementation, the hardware module is configured to perform a single count instruction, including - counting a number of “ones” contained in a first register; and storing, in a second register, the count of the number of “ones” contained in the first register.