Inventors:
Vinodh Gopal - Westborough MA, US
James D. Guilford - Northborough MA, US
Gilbert M. Wolrich - Framingham MA, US
Wajdi K. Feghali - Boston MA, US
Erdinc Ozturk - Marlborough MA, US
Martin G. Dixon - Portland OR, US
Sean P. Mirkes - Beaverton OR, US
Bret L. Toll - Hillsboro OR, US
Maxim Loktyukhin - Folsom CA, US
Mark C. Davis - Portland OR, US
Alexandre J. Farcy - Hillsboro OR, US
Assignee:
Intel Corporation - Santa Clara CA
International Classification:
G06F 9/00
Abstract:
A method of one aspect may include receiving a rotate instruction. The rotate instruction may indicate a source operand and a rotate amount. A result may be stored in a destination operand indicated by the rotate instruction. The result may have the source operand rotated by the rotate amount. Execution of the rotate instruction may complete without reading a carry flag.