Abstract: The present invention includes a substantially modular pipeline multiplier for directly forming the correct final product of a 2's complement data word and a sign and magnitude coefficient word. In particular, the present invention includes circuitry for inserting logic 1 signals into the computations as sign extensions during multiplication whenever the data word is a negative 2's complement number.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 1974
Date of Patent:
May 11, 1976
Assignee:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated