US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Oct. 7 for "Lookup table (LUT) vector instruction" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,763, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Lookup table (LUT) vector instruction" was invented by Yasuko Eckert (Redmond, Wash.), Vadim Vadimovich Nikiforov (Berkeley, Calif.), Gabriel H. Loh (Bellevue, Wash.) and Bradford Beckmann (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes processing circuitry that executes a lookup table (LUT) vector instruction. Executing the lookup table vector instruction causes the processing circuitry to acquire a set of reference values by using each input value from an input vector as an index to acquire a reference value from a...