Abstract: The present disclosure provides an interconnect architecture that enables communications and/or data transmissions among data storage drives in a computing system. The flash translation layer (FTL) in each data storage drive may be operated in a cooperative manner that allows communications and/or data transmissions across memory arrays from each of the data storage drives implemented in the computing system. The direct communications and/or data transmissions among the data storage drives in the computing system may be enabled without deferring back to a host computing device in the computing system. Thus, the computational load to the host computing device is reduced and the flexibility of scaling up the storage appliance in the computing system is increased.

Abstract: A combination has a booth recoder with at least three input lines; two input lines corresponding to two bits of a multiplier and one input line being an increment select line. In one embodiment, signals representing the two bits of the multiplier are provided on the two input lines corresponding to the two bits. A controller selectively asserts a increment select signal on an increment select line, thereby incrementing the multiplier. Therefore, the present invention has the advantage of incrementing a multiplier while performing booth multiplication without requiring an additional adder for incrementing.