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SQDMULH (vector)

Signed saturating doubling multiply returning high half

This instruction multiplies the values of corresponding elements of the two source SIMD&FP registers, doubles the results, places the most significant half of the final results into a vector, and writes the vector to the destination SIMD&FP register.

The results are truncated. For rounded results, see SQRDMULH.

If overflow occurs with any of the results, those results are saturated. If saturation occurs, the cumulative saturation bit FPSR.QC is set.

Depending on the settings in the CPACR_EL1, CPTR_EL2, and CPTR_EL3 registers, and the current Security state and Exception level, an attempt to execute the instruction might be trapped.

It has encodings from 2 classes: Scalar and Vector

Scalar class

(FEAT_AdvSIMD)

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
01011110size1Rm101101RnRd
Uopcode

Encoding

SQDMULH <V><d>, <V><n>, <V><m>

Decode

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AdvSIMD) then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF); if size == '11' || size == '00' then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF); constant integer d = UInt(Rd); constant integer n = UInt(Rn); constant integer m = UInt(Rm); constant integer esize = 8 << UInt(size); constant integer datasize = esize; constant integer elements = 1; constant boolean rounding = FALSE;

Vector class

(FEAT_AdvSIMD)

313029282726252423222120191817161514131211109876543210
0Q001110size1Rm101101RnRd
Uopcode

Encoding

SQDMULH <Vd>.<T>, <Vn>.<T>, <Vm>.<T>

Decode

if !IsFeatureImplemented(FEAT_AdvSIMD) then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF); if size == '11' || size == '00' then EndOfDecode(Decode_UNDEF); constant integer d = UInt(Rd); constant integer n = UInt(Rn); constant integer m = UInt(Rm); constant integer esize = 8 << UInt(size); constant integer datasize = 64 << UInt(Q); constant integer elements = datasize DIV esize; constant boolean rounding = FALSE;

Assembler Symbols

<V>

Is a width specifier, encoded in size:

size <V>
00 RESERVED
01 H
10 S
11 RESERVED
<d>

Is the number of the SIMD&FP destination register, encoded in the "Rd" field.

<n>

Is the number of the first SIMD&FP source register, encoded in the "Rn" field.

<m>

Is the number of the second SIMD&FP source register, encoded in the "Rm" field.

<Vd>

Is the name of the SIMD&FP destination register, encoded in the "Rd" field.

<T>

Is an arrangement specifier, encoded in size:Q:

size Q <T>
00 x RESERVED
01 0 4H
01 1 8H
10 0 2S
10 1 4S
11 x RESERVED
<Vn>

Is the name of the first SIMD&FP source register, encoded in the "Rn" field.

<Vm>

Is the name of the second SIMD&FP source register, encoded in the "Rm" field.

Operation

AArch64.CheckFPAdvSIMDEnabled(); constant bits(datasize) operand1 = V[n, datasize]; constant bits(datasize) operand2 = V[m, datasize]; bits(datasize) result; integer element1; integer element2; integer product; boolean sat; for e = 0 to elements-1 element1 = SInt(Elem[operand1, e, esize]); element2 = SInt(Elem[operand2, e, esize]); product = 2 * element1 * element2; product = RShr(product, esize, rounding); (Elem[result, e, esize], sat) = SignedSatQ(product, esize); if sat then FPSR.QC = '1'; V[d, datasize] = result;

Operational information

This instruction is a data-independent-time instruction as described in About PSTATE.DIT.


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