公开(公告)号：US08769385B2

公开(公告)日：2014-07-01

申请号：US13940647

申请日：2013-07-12

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Steven R. King ,  Frank L. Berry ,  Michael E. Kounavis

IPC: H03M13/00

CPC classification number: G06F11/1004 ,  G06F9/30003 ,  G06F9/30018 ,  G06F9/30032 ,  G06F15/76 ,  G06T1/20 ,  H03M13/00 ,  H03M13/09 ,  H03M13/093 ,  H03M13/096 ,  H03M13/157

Abstract: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving incoming data in a processor and performing a checksum operation on the incoming data in the processor pursuant to a user-level instruction for the checksum operation. For example, a cyclic redundancy checksum may be computed in the processor itself responsive to the user-level instruction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.