| AI Engine-ML Intrinsics User Guide (v2026.1)

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Load/Store Operations

## Overview

The compiler supports pointer dereferencing and pointer arithmetic. No special intrinsics are needed to load or store vectors. For example:

v16int16 *input, *output;
// ... initialize input and output data pointers
v16int16 mydata = *input++;
...
*output = mydata;
v16int16
Definition me_chess.h:494

The data pointers must be aligned to 256-bit boundary for vector loads/stores. Load/Store behaviour is undefined when stack-allocated vector variables are unaligned.

Linear pointer manipulation can be directly in the code with the use of the de-referencing, increment, decrement, etc, operators. For more complex pointer manipulation please see Addressing intrinsics .

## Topics
| Addressing intrinsics
| Compressed Load Operations
| Compressed load operations load a compressed vector and expand it into an AIE-ML register.
| Compressed Sparse Load Operations
| Compressed sparse load operations load a compressed sparse vector and expand it into an AIE-ML register.
| Load 4x Operations
| Load 4x intrinsics load four 64-bit values to a vector register from data memory.
| Streams