Patent ID: 7926009

Claim:
A design structure embodied in a non-transitory machine readable storage medium for at least one of designing, manufacturing, and testing a design, wherein the design structure resides on the storage medium as a data format used for an exchange of layout data of integrated circuits, the design structure, when implemented by executing instructions on a computer, provides elements comprising: a processor comprising: a shared register file, wherein the shared register file contains a plurality of instructions; a first vector unit communicatively connected to the shared register file to receive one or more of the plurality of instructions; and a second vector unit communicatively connected to the shared register file to receive one or more of the plurality of instructions, wherein the first vector unit and the second vector unit each comprise a plurality of vector processing lanes configured to execute a vector instruction from the plurality of instructions and at least one scalar processing lane configured to execute a scalar instruction from the plurality of instructions, the first vector unit and the second vector unit being configured to independently and simultaneously execute instructions, and wherein the first vector unit and the second vector unit are configured to execute a single vector instruction from the plurality of the instructions in the plurality of vector processing lanes of the first vector unit and one or more of the plurality of vector processing lanes of the second vector unit.