公开(公告)号：US20170109160A1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-20

申请号：US15238703

申请日：2016-08-16

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： MARTIN G. DIXON ,  BAIJU V. PATEL ,  RAJEEV GOPALAKRISHNA

IPC: G06F9/30 ,  G06F9/38

CPC classification number: G06F9/3016 ,  G06F9/30014 ,  G06F9/30021 ,  G06F9/30076 ,  G06F9/3802 ,  G06F9/3838 ,  G06F9/3861

Abstract: A processor is described having a functional unit within an instruction execution pipeline. The functional unit having circuitry to determine whether substantive data from a larger source data size will fit within a smaller data size that the substantive data is to flow to.