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Copies of documents which have an order number and are referenced in this document, or other Intel literature, may be obtained by calling 1- 800-548-4725, or go to: http://www.intel.com/design/literature.htm Copyright © 1997-2012 Intel Corporation ii Ref. # 319433-014 CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER 1 INTEL® ADVANCED VECTOR EXTENSIONS 1.1 About This Document . 1-1 1.2 Overview. 1-1 1.3 Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions Architecture Overview . 1-1 1.3.1 256-Bit Wide SIMD Register Support. 1-2 1.3.2 Instruction Syntax Enhancements . 1-2 1.3.3 VEX Prefix Instruction Encoding Support. 1-3 1.4 Overview AVX2 . 1-3 1.5 Functional Overview . 1-3 1.5.1 256-bit Floating-Point Arithmetic Processing Enhancements . 1-4 1.5.2 256-bit Non-Arithmetic Instruction Enhancements . 1-4 1.5.3 Arithmetic Primitives for 128-bit Vector and Scalar processing. 1-4 1.5.4 Non-Arithmetic Primitives for 128-bit Vector and Scalar Processing . 1-4 1.5.5 AVX2 and 256-bit Vector Integer Processing . 1-5 1.6 General Purpose Instruction Set Enhancements . 1-5 1.7 Intel® Transactional Synchronization Extensions . 1-6 CHAPTER 2 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING MODEL 2.1 Detection of PCLMULQDQ and AES Instructions . 2-1 2.2 Detection of AVX and FMA Instructions . 2-1 2.2.1 Detection of FMA . 2-2 2.2.2 Detection of VEX-Encoded AES and VPCLMULQDQ . 2-3 2.2.3 Detection of AVX2. 2-4 2.2.4 Detection of VEX-encoded GPR Instructions. 2-5 2.3 Fused-Multiply-ADD (FMA) Numeric Behavior . 2-5 2.3.1 FMA Instruction Operand Order and Arithmetic Behavior. 2-8 2.4 Accessing YMM Registers . 2-8 2.5 Memory alignment . 2-9 2.6 SIMD floating-point ExCeptions . 2-11 2.7 Instruction Exception Specification . 2-11 2.7.1 Exceptions Type 1 (Aligned memory reference) . 2-15 2.7.2 Exceptions Type 2 (>=16 Byte Memory Reference, Unaligned) . 2-16 2.7.3 Exceptions Type 3 (<16 Byte memory argument) . 2-17 2.7.4 Exceptions Type 4 (>=16 Byte mem arg no alignment, no floating-point exceptions) . 2-18 2.7.5 Exceptions Type 5 (<16 Byte mem arg and no FP exceptions). 2-19 2.7.6 Exceptions Type 6 (VEX-Encoded Instructions Without Legacy SSE Analogues) . 2-20 2.7.7 Exceptions Type 7 (No FP exceptions, no memory arg) . 2-21 2.7.8 Exceptions Type 8 (AVX and no memory argument) . 2-21 2.7.9 Exception Type 11 (VEX-only, mem arg no AC, floating-point exceptions). 2-22 2.7.10 Exception Type 12 (VEX-only, VSIB mem arg, no AC, no floating-point exceptions) . 2-23 2.7.11 Exception Conditions for VEX-Encoded GPR Instructions . 2-24 2.8 Programming Considerations with 128-bit SIMD Instructions . 2-25 2.8.1 Clearing Upper YMM State Between AVX and Legacy SSE Instructions. 2-26 2.8.2 Using AVX 128-bit.
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