SINGLE INSTRUCTION MULTIPLE DATA PROCESSING USING MULTIPLE BANKS OF VECTOR REGISTERS

摘要

The vector processor includes two banks of vector registers capable of storing a plurality of data elements, and a control register having a field indicating a default bank. The instruction set for the vector processor includes a double-size vector register comprising instructions using a register number to identify vector registers in the default bank, a register from a first bank and a register from a second bank. Instructions using a register number to identify, and instructions including a bank bit and a register number to access a vector register from either bank.