smax

SVE Signed Maximum

SMAX <Zdn>.<T>, <Pg>/M, <Zdn>.<T>, <Zm>.<T>

Determines maximum signed value per element.

Details

SVE signed maximum: computes the element-wise maximum of two signed integer vectors (Zdn and Zm), writing results to Zdn under predicate mask control (Pg). Only elements where the predicate is active are updated; inactive elements retain their original values in Zdn. No condition flags are affected. This is an AArch64-only instruction requiring SVE support.

Pseudocode Operation

for e = 0 to VL/getElementSize(T)-1
  if Pg[e] == 1 then
    Zdn[e] ← max_signed(Zdn[e], Zm[e])
  end if
end for

Example

SMAX z0.s.T, p0/m/M, z0.s.T, z2.s.T

Encoding

Binary Layout
00000100
size
001
0
0
0
000
Pg
Zm
Zdn
 
Format SVE Integer Binary
Opcode 0x04080000
Extension SVE

Operands

  • Zdn
    Combined destination/source scalable vector register (SVE)
  • Pg
    Mask
  • Zm
    Second source scalable vector register (SVE)

Reference (Arm A64 ISA)

Instruction Forms

Encoding Instruction ISA Bit pattern
0x0E206400 SMAX <Vd>.<T>, <Vn>.<T>, <Vm>.<T> A64 0 | Q | 0 | 01110 | size | 1 | Rm | 0110 | 0 | 1 | Rn | Rd
0x11C00000 SMAX <Wd>, <Wn>, #<simm> A64 0 | 0 | 0 | 1000111 | 0000 | imm8 | Rn | Rd
0x91C00000 SMAX <Xd>, <Xn>, #<simm> A64 1 | 0 | 0 | 1000111 | 0000 | imm8 | Rn | Rd
0xC120A000 SMAX { <Zdn1>.<T>-<Zdn2>.<T> }, { <Zdn1>.<T>-<Zdn2>.<T> }, <Zm>.<T> A64 11000001 | size | 10 | Zm | 101000 | 0000 | 0 | Zdn | 0
0xC120A800 SMAX { <Zdn1>.<T>-<Zdn4>.<T> }, { <Zdn1>.<T>-<Zdn4>.<T> }, <Zm>.<T> A64 11000001 | size | 10 | Zm | 101010 | 0000 | 0 | Zdn | 0 | 0
0xC120B000 SMAX { <Zdn1>.<T>-<Zdn2>.<T> }, { <Zdn1>.<T>-<Zdn2>.<T> }, { <Zm1>.<T>-<Zm2>.<T> } A64 11000001 | size | 1 | Zm | 0101100 | 000 | 0 | 0 | Zdn | 0
0xC120B800 SMAX { <Zdn1>.<T>-<Zdn4>.<T> }, { <Zdn1>.<T>-<Zdn4>.<T> }, { <Zm1>.<T>-<Zm4>.<T> } A64 11000001 | size | 1 | Zm | 00101110 | 000 | 0 | 0 | Zdn | 0 | 0
0x1AC06000 SMAX <Wd>, <Wn>, <Wm> A64 0 | 0 | 0 | 11010110 | Rm | 011000 | Rn | Rd
0x9AC06000 SMAX <Xd>, <Xn>, <Xm> A64 1 | 0 | 0 | 11010110 | Rm | 011000 | Rn | Rd
0x04080000 SMAX <Zdn>.<T>, <Pg>/M, <Zdn>.<T>, <Zm>.<T> A64 00000100 | size | 001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 000 | Pg | Zm | Zdn
0x2528C000 SMAX <Zdn>.<T>, <Zdn>.<T>, #<imm> A64 00100101 | size | 101 | 00 | 0 | 11 | 0 | imm8 | Zdn

Description

Determine the signed maximum of active elements of the second source vector and corresponding elements of the first source vector and destructively place the results in the corresponding elements of the first source vector. Inactive elements in the destination vector register remain unmodified.

Operation

CheckSVEEnabled();
constant integer VL = CurrentVL;
constant integer PL = VL DIV 8;
constant integer elements = VL DIV esize;
bits(PL) mask = P[g, PL];
bits(VL) operand1 = Z[dn, VL];
bits(VL) operand2 = if AnyActiveElement(mask, esize) then Z[m, VL] else Zeros(VL);
bits(VL) result;

for e = 0 to elements-1
    integer element1 = Int(Elem[operand1, e, esize], unsigned);
    integer element2 = Int(Elem[operand2, e, esize], unsigned);
    if ActivePredicateElement(mask, e, esize) then
        integer maximum = Max(element1, element2);
        Elem[result, e, esize] = maximum<esize-1:0>;
    else
        Elem[result, e, esize] = Elem[operand1, e, esize];

Z[dn, VL] = result;