UNPCKHPS—Unpack and Interleave High Packed Single-Precision Floating-Point Values

Opcode/Instruction Op/En 64/32 bit Mode Support CPUID Feature Flag Description
0F 15 /r UNPCKHPS xmm1, xmm2/m128 RM V/V SSE Unpacks and Interleaves single-precision floating-point values from high quadwords of xmm1 and xmm2/mem into xmm1.
VEX.NDS.128.0F.WIG 15 /r VUNPCKHPS xmm1,xmm2, xmm3/m128 RVM V/V AVX Unpacks and Interleaves single-precision floating-point values from high quadwords of xmm2 and xmm3/m128.
VEX.NDS.256.0F.WIG 15 /r VUNPCKHPS ymm1,ymm2,ymm3/m256 RVM V/V AVX Unpacks and Interleaves single-precision floating-point values from high quadwords of ymm2 and ymm3/m256.

Instruction Operand Encoding

Op/En Operand 1 Operand 2 Operand 3 Operand 4
RM ModRM:reg (r, w) ModRM:r/m (r) NA NA
RVM ModRM:reg (w) VEX.vvvv (r) ModRM:r/m (r) NA

Description

Performs an interleaved unpack of the high-order single-precision floating-point values from the source operand (second operand) and the destination operand (first operand). See Figure 4-24. The source operand can be an XMM register or a 128-bit memory location; the destination operand is an XMM register.

DEST X3 X2 X1 X0
SRC Y3 Y2 Y1 Y0
DEST Y3 UNPCKHPS Instruction High Unpack and Interleave Operation X3 Y2 X2 Figure 4-24.

When unpacking from a memory operand, an implementation may fetch only the appropriate 64 bits; however, alignment to 16-byte boundary and normal segment checking will still be enforced.

In 64-bit mode, using a REX prefix in the form of REX.R permits this instruction to access additional registers (XMM8-XMM15). 128-bit Legacy SSE version: T second source can be an XMM register or an 128-bit memory location. The destination is not distinct from the first source XMM register and the upper bits (VLMAX-1:128) of the corresponding YMM register destination are unmodified. VEX.128 encoded version: the first source operand is an XMM register or 128-bit memory location. The destination operand is an XMM register. The upper bits (VLMAX-1:128) of the corresponding YMM register destination are zeroed.

Operation

UNPCKHPS (128-bit Legacy SSE version)
DEST[31:0] ← SRC1[95:64]
DEST[63:32] ← SRC2[95:64]
DEST[95:64] ← SRC1[127:96]
DEST[127:96] ← SRC2[127:96]
DEST[VLMAX-1:128] (Unmodified)
VUNPCKHPS (VEX.128 encoded version)
DEST[31:0] ← SRC1[95:64]
DEST[63:32] ← SRC2[95:64]
DEST[95:64] ← SRC1[127:96]
DEST[127:96] ← SRC2[127:96]
DEST[VLMAX-1:128] ← 0
VUNPCKHPS (VEX.256 encoded version)
DEST[31:0] ← SRC1[95:64]
DEST[63:32] ← SRC2[95:64]
DEST[95:64] ← SRC1[127:96]
DEST[127:96] ← SRC2[127:96]
DEST[159:128] ← SRC1[223:192]
DEST[191:160] ← SRC2[223:192]
DEST[223:192] ← SRC1[255:224]
DEST[255:224] ← SRC2[255:224]

Intel C/C++ Compiler Intrinsic Equivalent

UNPCKHPS: __m128 _mm_unpackhi_ps(__m128 a, __m128 b)
UNPCKHPS: __m256 _mm256_unpackhi_ps (__m256 a, __m256 b);

SIMD Floating-Point Exceptions

None.

Other Exceptions

See Exceptions Type 4.