VEXP2PS - Approximation to the Exponential 2^x of Packed Single Precision Floating-Point Values With Less Than 2^-23 Relative Error

Opcode/ Instruction

Op / En

64/32 bit Mode Support

CPUID Feature Flag

Description

EVEX.512.66.0F38.W0 C8 /r VEXP2PS zmm1 {k1}{z}, zmm2/m512/m32bcst {sae}

A

V/V

AVX512ER

Computes approximations to the exponential 2^x (with less than 2^-23 of maximum relative error) of the packed single- precision floating-point values from zmm2/m512/m32bcst and stores the floating-point result in zmm1with writemask k1.

Instruction Operand Encoding

Op/En

Tuple Type

Operand 1

Operand 2

Operand 3

Operand 4

A

Full

ModRM:reg (r, w)

ModRM:r/m (r)

N/A

N/A

Description

Computes the approximate base-2 exponential evaluation of the single-precision floating-point values in the source operand (the second operand) and store the results in the destination operand (the first operand) using the write- mask k1. The approximate base-2 exponential is evaluated with less than 2^-23 of relative error.

Denormal input values are treated as zeros and do not signal #DE, irrespective of MXCSR.DAZ. Denormal results are flushed to zeros and do not signal #UE, irrespective of MXCSR.FTZ.

The source operand is a ZMM register, a 512-bit memory location, or a 512-bit vector broadcasted from a 32-bit memory location. The destination operand is a ZMM register, conditionally updated using writemask k1.

EVEX.vvvv is reserved and must be 1111b otherwise instructions will #UD.

A numerically exact implementation of VEXP2xx can be found at https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/refer- ence-implementations-for-IA-approximation-instructions-vrcp14-vrsqrt14-vrcp28-vrsqrt28-vexp2.

Operation

VEXP2PS 

(KL, VL) = (16, 512)
FOR j := 0 TO KL-1
   i := j * 32
   IF k1[j] OR *no writemask* THEN
            IF (EVEX.b = 1) AND (SRC *is memory*)
                THEN DEST[i+31:i] := EXP2_23_SP(SRC[31:0])
                ELSE DEST[i+31:i] := EXP2_23_SP(SRC[i+31:i])
            FI;
   ELSE 
       IF *merging-masking*                ; merging-masking
            THEN *DEST[i+31:i] remains unchanged*
            ELSE                            ; zeroing-masking
                DEST[i+31:i] := 0
       FI;
   FI;
ENDFOR;

Table 8-2. Special Values Behavior

Source Input

Result

Comments

NaN

QNaN(src)

If (SRC = SNaN) then #I

+inf

+inf

+/-0

1.0f

Exact result

-inf

+0.0f

Integral value N

2^ (N)

Exact result

Intel C/C++ Compiler Intrinsic Equivalent 

VEXP2PS __m512 _mm512_exp2a23_round_ps (__m512 a, int sae);
VEXP2PS __m512 _mm512_mask_exp2a23_round_ps (__m512 a, __mmask16 m, __m512 b, int sae);
VEXP2PS __m512 _mm512_maskz_exp2a23_round_ps (__mmask16 m, __m512 b, int sae);

SIMD Floating-Point Exceptions

Invalid (if SNaN input), Overflow.

Other Exceptions

See Table 2-46, "Type E2 Class Exception Conditions."