US Patent 7783862 Method and apparatus for an inductive doubling architecture

One embodiment of the present invention is a processor that processes inductive doubling SIMD instructions, which processor includes: an Instruction Fetch Unit that loads a SIMD instruction and applies it as input to a SIMD Instruction Decode Unit; wherein the SIMD Instruction Decode Unit decodes the applied SIMD instruction and produces output signals including SIMD field width identification signals and one or more SIMD half-operand modifier signals.