Nigel John Stephens

TECHNIQUE FOR HANDLING DATA ELEMENTS STORED IN AN ARRAY STORAGE

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A SPLICE OPERATION

Register addressing information for data transfer instruction

Processing instructions selected from a first instruction set in a first processing mode and instructions selected from a second different instruction set in a second processing mode

Data processing

Data structure processing

Data structure relinquishing

Data processing

Vector interleaving in a data processing apparatus

Vector add-with-carry instruction

Anchored data element conversion

Testing bit values inside vector elements

Element by vector operations in a data processing apparatus

Handling contingent and non-contingent memory access program instructions making use of disable flag

Bit processing

Vector atomic memory update instruction

Vector processing using loops of dynamic vector length

Handling exceptional conditions for vector arithmetic instruction

Determine whether to fuse move prefix instruction and immediately following instruction independently of detecting identical destination registers

Vector load instruction

Vector data transfer instruction

Apparatus and method for performing a splice of vectors based on location and length data

Propagation instruction to generate a set of predicate flags based on previous and current prediction data

Contingent load suppression

Vector operand bitsize control

Vector length querying instruction

Conditional selection of data elements

Apparatus and method for transferring a plurality of data structures between memory and a plurality of vector registers

MIXED SIZE DATA PROCESSING OPERATION

Mixed operand size instruction processing for execution of indirect addressing load instruction specifying registers for different size operands