Multiplication Patents (Class 708/620)
  • Patent number: 8560592
    Abstract: A system for processing sample sequences, that may include an input, a sequence of coupled registers, including an accumulator register, and first circuitry that may be coupled to the accumulator register and to the input. The input may be configured to receive a first number of sample sequences having two or more samples. To process the first number of sample sequences, the first circuitry may be configured to generate a current effective sample corresponding to the sample for each sample in each sample sequence, write the current effective sample to the accumulator register, and shift the contents of each register into a successive register in the sequence of registers. After processing, each register of at least a subset of the sequence of registers may hold a respective final effective sample that may correspond to a different position in a processed sample sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: National Instruments Corporation
    Inventors: Hector Rubio, Garritt W. Foote
  • Patent number: 8543630
    Abstract: In a computing device that calculates a square of an element in a finite field, a vector representation of the element in the finite field is accepted. The vector representation includes a plurality of elements. The computing device performs a multiplication operation on a base field using the accepted elements, and obtains a multiplication value. The multiplication operation is determined by a condition under which the element in the finite field is placed in an algebraic torus. The computing device performs an addition and subtraction operation using the obtained multiplication value and the accepted elements, and obtains a calculation result of the square of the element. The addition and subtraction operation is determined by the condition. The computing device then outputs the calculation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoko Yonemura, Hirofumi Muratani, Atsushi Shimbo, Kenji Ohkuma, Taichi Isogai, Yuichi Komano, Kenichiro Furuta, Yoshikazu Hanatani
  • Patent number: 8527572
    Abstract: In a multiplier architecture, all stages of a multiplication function are implemented using a uniform array of logic blocks. An exemplary multiplier circuit includes a two-dimensional array of substantially similar logic blocks. Each logic block includes a multiply block and a logic circuit driven by the multiply block. The logic circuit is coupled to implement an add function. A first portion of the array is coupled to receive the first and second multiplicand inputs, to provide a partial product bus, and to provide lower bits of the product output. A second portion is coupled to receive the partial product bus from the first portion of the array, and to provide from the partial product bus upper bits of the product output. The multiply blocks may be non-uniform arrays, e.g., logical AND gates and full adders in all but one column, with only logical AND gates in the remaining column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven P. Young, Brian C. Gaide
  • Patent number: 8478809
    Abstract: An efficient method and apparatus to compute a product of polynomials of degree n?1 where n is an arbitrary prime is provided. The total number of multiply operations and Arithmetic Logical Unit (ALU) operations to compute the product is minimized through the judicious use of polynomial evaluations at few points to decrease the number of multiplications while using only simple ALU operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinodh Gopal, Michael E. Kounavis
  • Publication number: 20130165063
    Abstract: In order to provide a means for solving a problem that it provides a signal processing circuit with small circuit area and low power consumption, a signal processing circuit includes the first multiplying means which multiplies the first signal including the first frequency component by the second signal including the second frequency component and thereby outputs the third signal, the second multiplying means which multiplies the first signal by the fourth signal of the second frequency whose phase is lagging equals to the first phase difference relative to the second signal and thereby outputs the fifth signal, the third multiplying means which multiplies the first signal by the sixth signal of the second frequency whose phase is lagging equals to the second phase difference relative to the second signal and thereby outputs the seventh signal, the first adding means which adds the third signal with the first weight, the fifth signal with the second weight and the seventh signal with the third weight respect
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaki Kitsunezuka
  • Publication number: 20130166616
    Abstract: The present system and method relate to a system for performing a multiplication. The system is arranged for receiving a first data value, and comprises means for calculating at run time a set of instructions for performing a multiplication using the first data value, storage means for storing the set of instructions calculated at run time, multiplication means arranged for receiving a second data value and at least one instruction from the stored set of instructions and arranged for performing multiplication of the first and the second data values using the at least one instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicants: IMEC, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD., KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, K.U. LEUVEN R&D
    Inventors: IMEC, KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, K.U. LEUVEN R&D, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
  • Patent number: 8471593
    Abstract: A logic cell array having a number of logic cells and a segmented bus system for logic cell communication, the bus system including different segment lines having shorter and longer segments for connecting two points in order to be able to minimize the number of bus elements traversed between separate communication start and end points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Inventors: Martin Vorbach, Frank May, Dirk Reichardt, Frank Lier, Gerd Ehlers, Armin Nückel, Volker Baumgarte, Prashant Rao, Jens Oertel
  • Patent number: 8468192
    Abstract: The number of multipliers of a particular size that are required to perform a multiplication larger than that size is reduced. In the example of a 36-bit-by-36-bit multiplication, the number of 18-bit-by-18-bit multipliers required may be reduced from four to three. This may be achieved by using recursive decomposition techniques. As discussed in more detail below, if for each of two 36-bit numbers, the “digits” of each respective 36-bit number are added together, and then the two sums are multiplied, the resulting term can be combined additively with the product of the least-significant group of bits of the two 36-bit numbers and the product of the most-significant group of bits of the two 36-bit numbers to provide the desired product. A specialized processing block includes structures to facilitate the recursive decomposition technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Martin Langhammer
  • Publication number: 20130144925
    Abstract: Solving computational problems may include generating a logic circuit representation of the computational problem, encoding the logic circuit representation as a discrete optimization problem, and solving the discrete optimization problem using a quantum processor. Output(s) of the logic circuit representation may be clamped such that the solving involves effectively executing the logic circuit representation in reverse to determine input(s) that corresponds to the clamped output(s). The representation may be of a multiplication circuit. The discrete optimization problem may be composed of a set of miniature optimization problems, where each miniature optimization problem encodes a respective logic gate from the logic circuit representation. A multiplication circuit may employ binary representations of factors, and these binary representations may be decomposed to reduce the total number of variables required to represent the multiplication circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: D-Wave Systems Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130144926
    Abstract: A first systolic array receives an input set of time division multiplexed matrices from a plurality of channel matrices. In a first mode, the first systolic array performs triangularization on the input matrices, producing a first set of matrices, and in a second mode performs back-substitution on the first set, producing a second set of matrices. In a first mode, a second systolic array performs left multiplication on the second set of matrices with the input set of matrices, producing a third set of matrices. In a second mode, the second systolic array performs cross diagonal transposition on the third set of matrices, producing a fourth set of matrices, and performs right multiplication on the second set of matrices with the fourth set of matrices. The first systolic array switches from the first mode to the second mode after the triangularization, and the second systolic array switches from the first mode to the second mode after the left multiplication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: XILINX, INC.
    Inventor: XILINX, INC.
  • Patent number: 8443032
    Abstract: A multiplication circuit generates a product of a matrix and a first scalar when in matrix mode and a product of a second scalar and a third scalar when in scalar mode. The multiplication circuit comprises a sub-product generator, an accumulator and an adder. The adder is configured to sum outputs of the accumulator to generate the product of the first scalar second scalar and the third scalar when in scalar mode. The sub-product generator generates sub-products of the matrix and the first scalar when in matrix mode and sub-products of the second scalar and the third scalar when in scalar mode. The accumulator is configured to generate the product of the matrix and the first scalar by providing save of the multiplication operation of the outputs from the sub-product generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
    Inventors: Chen Hsing Wang, Chieh Lin Chuang, Cheng Wen Wu
  • Patent number: 8438208
    Abstract: A processor including instruction support for implementing large-operand multiplication may issue, for execution, programmer-selectable instructions from a defined instruction set architecture (ISA). The processor may include an instruction execution unit comprising a hardware multiplier datapath circuit, where the hardware multiplier datapath circuit is configured to multiply operands having a maximum number of bits M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher H. Olson, Jeffrey S. Brooks, Robert T. Golla, Paul J. Jordan
  • Patent number: 8438205
    Abstract: In a computing device that calculates a square of an element in a finite field, a vector representation of the element in the finite field is accepted. The vector representation includes a plurality of elements. The computing device performs a multiplication operation on a base field using the accepted elements, and obtains a multiplication value. The multiplication operation is determined by a condition under which the element in the finite field is placed in an algebraic torus. The computing device performs an addition and subtraction operation using the obtained multiplication value and the accepted elements, and obtains a calculation result of the square of the element. The addition and subtraction operation is determined by the condition. The computing device then outputs the calculation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoko Yonemura, Hirofumi Muratani, Atsushi Shimbo, Kenji Ohkuma, Taichi Isogai, Yuichi Komano, Kenichiro Furuta, Yoshikazu Hanatani
  • Patent number: 8433744
    Abstract: A multiply-accumulate (MAC) circuit including a queue circuit programmable at runtime is described. In one embodiment, the queue circuit includes a main queue that is programmable at runtime and a supplementary queue. In one embodiment, the queue circuit further includes M multiplexers coupled to the main queue and the supplementary queue, where M is an integer greater than or equal to one. In one embodiment, the MAC circuit further includes M multiplier elements coupled to the queue circuit and an accumulator circuit coupled to the M multiplier elements. The M multiplier elements receive multiplicands from the queue circuits and provide results of multiplications to the accumulator circuit. The accumulator circuit maintains a running sum of the results of the M multiplications performed by the M multiplier elements. In one embodiment, the accumulator circuit includes two adder circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Aidan Harding
  • Patent number: 8417760
    Abstract: For calculating a result of a modular multiplication with long operands, at least the multiplicand is divided into at least three shorter portions. Using the three shorter portions of the multiplicand, the multiplier and the modulus, a modular multiplication is performed within a cryptographic calculation, wherein the portions of the multiplicand, the multiplier and the modulus are parameters of the cryptographic calculation. The calculation is performed sequentially using the portions of the multiplicand and using an intermediate result obtained in a previous calculation, until all portions of the multiplicand are processed, to obtain the final result of the modular multiplication. The calculation of an intermediate result is performed using a multiplication addition operation, in which MMD operations and updating operations are performed sequentially, and short auxiliary registers and short result registers are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Wieland Fischer
  • Patent number: 8417761
    Abstract: The digital propagate, digit generate, sum+0, and sum+1 terms used in typical carry-propagate adders are generated directly off the multiplicand. During the direct generation, the logic takes into account that each digit will be tripled and if each digit's next less significant digit is greater than 4. Using this technique, the generation of the multiplicand is significantly faster and uses less circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Alan Erle, Brian John Hickmann
  • Publication number: 20130080491
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a microprocessor includes fetch logic for retrieving an instruction, decode logic configured to identify a plurality of operands and a multiply operation specified in the instruction, and execution logic configured to receive the plurality of operands and the multiply operation. The execution logic includes a first logic path configured to perform the multiply operation on the plurality of operands and output a result, and a second logic path, arranged in parallel with the first logic path, configured to output metadata associated with the result of the multiply operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: NIVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Scott Pitkethly
  • Patent number: 8386554
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for factoring numbers are provided. The factoring may be accomplished by creating a factor graph, mapping the factor graph onto an analog processor, initializing the analog processor to an initial state, evolving the analog processor to a final state, and receiving an output from the analog processor, the output comprising a set of factors of the number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: D-Wave Systems Inc.
    Inventors: William G. Macready, Johnathan Kuan
  • Patent number: 8386553
    Abstract: A plurality of specialized processing blocks in a programmable logic device, including multipliers and circuitry for adding results of those multipliers, can be configured as a larger multiplier by adding to the specialized processing blocks selectable circuitry for shifting multiplier results before adding. In one embodiment, this allows all but the final addition to take place in specialized processing blocks, with the final addition occurring in programmable logic. In another embodiment, additional compression and adding circuitry allows even the final addition to occur in the specialized processing blocks. Circuitry that controls when an input is signed or unsigned facilitates complex arithmetic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Langhammer, Kumara Tharmalingam
  • Publication number: 20130031154
    Abstract: A self-timed multiplier unit includes a multiplier and a clock generator. The multiplier has a first set of semiconductor circuits in a critical path. The clock generator has a second set of semiconductor circuits configured to control a clock period of said clock generator selected to set a clock period longer than the propagation delay through the critical path of the multiplier. The clock generator may include a delay circuit having a delay to set the clock period longer than the propagation delay through the critical path of said multiplier. The clock generator uses circuit with identical logical design including the same standard cells, the same logic design or the same floor plan. Close matching of these circuit causes the multiplier and the clock generator to experience the same PVT speed variations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Wiencke, Horst Diewald
  • Patent number: 8360780
    Abstract: A multiplication and division puzzle and method of making thereof include a main table having a plurality of cells in rows and columns, the cells being filled with products and multipliers. A template having a plurality of cells that correspond to the plurality of cells in the main table has selected cells removed to form openings therein to reveal a set of product clues in the main table when the template is superimposed or laid thereon. The product clues include the products in the cells of the main table. The non-selected cells that remain in the template, concealing the multiplier answer and non-selected product answers in the main table. The main table and template are used to form a puzzle blank having a plurality of cells containing the set of product clues and empty cells for the user to fill in missing product answers. The main table contains all of the product and multiplier answers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Inventor: Lyndon O. Barton
  • Patent number: 8364740
    Abstract: For calculating a result of a modular multiplication with long operands, at least the multiplicand is divided into at least three shorter portions. Using the three shorter portions of the multiplicand, the multiplier and the modulus, a modular multiplication is performed within a cryptographic calculation, wherein the portions of the multiplicand, the multiplier and the modulus are parameters of the cryptographic calculation. The calculation is performed sequentially using the portions of the multiplicand and using an intermediate result obtained in a previous calculation, until all portions of the multiplicand are processed, to obtain the final result of the modular multiplication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Wieland Fischer
  • Patent number: 8364737
    Abstract: For calculating the result of a sum of a first operand and a second operand, a modified second operand is calculated, which is negative and less than the modulus. Based on this modified second operand, a sum is calculated which is less than a maximally processable number of a calculating unit executing the calculation. Finally, the sum calculated using the modified second operand is reduced, namely with respect to the modulus, to obtain the result of the sum of the first and second operands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Wieland Fischer
  • Patent number: 8346839
    Abstract: The speed at which an AES decrypt operation may be performed in a general purpose processor is increased by providing a separate decrypt data path. The critical path delay of the aes decrypt path is reduced by combining multiply and inverse operations in the Inverse SubBytes transformation. A further decrease in critical path delay in the aes decrypt data path is provided by merging appropriate constants of the inverse mix-column transform into a map function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Erdinc Ozturk, Vinodh Gopal, Gilbert Wolrich, Wajdi K. Feghali, Kirk S. Yap
  • Patent number: 8332452
    Abstract: The present invention is generally related to the field of image processing, and more specifically to an instruction set for processing images. Vector processing may involve performing a plurality of dot product operations to generate operands for generating operands for a new vector. The dot product operations may require the issue of a plurality of permute instructions to arrange the vector operands in desired locations of a target register. Embodiments of the invention provide a dot product instruction wherein a mask field may be used to specify a particular location of a target register in which to transfer data, thereby avoiding the need for permute instructions for arranging data, reducing dependencies between instructions, and the usage of temporary registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Oliver Mejdrich, Adam James Muff
  • Patent number: 8332453
    Abstract: A shifter that includes a plurality of shift stages positioned within the shifter, and receiving and shifting input data to generate a shifted result, and a detection circuit coupled at an input of a final shift stage of the plurality of shifters, in a final stage within the shifter. The detection circuit receives a partially shifted vector at the input of the final shift stage along with a predetermined shift amount, and performing an all-one or all-zero detection operation using a portion of the partially shifted vector and the predetermined shift amount, in parallel, to a shifting operation performed by the final shift stage to generate the shifted result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Maarten Boersma, Silvia Melitta Mueller, Jochen Preiss, Holger Wetter
  • Patent number: 8321492
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for converting a reduction algorithm to a segmented reduction algorithm. In operation, a reduction algorithm is identified. Additionally, the reduction algorithm is converted to a segmented reduction algorithm. Furthermore, the segmented reduction algorithm is performed to produce an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Shubhabrata Sengupta, Michael J. Garland
  • Patent number: 8312070
    Abstract: Disclosed is directed to a speed-level calculator and calculating method for dynamic voltage scaling. The speed-level calculator comprises a deadline counter, a shifter, and a fixed-point multiplier. The deadline counter calculates the residual time D from current time to each task deadline for completing an episode. The shifter generates a D? value by shifting the D value to the right for e-m bits, and takes the decimal fraction part of the D? value for m bits. The speed-level calculator further comprises a saturation control circuit to detect if an overflow occurs on the D? value. According to a pre-calculated parameter ?i corresponding to each task Ti, the fixed-point multiplier performs the multiplication of D? and ?i. After completing saturation and rounding on the multiplication result, a corresponding clock period is generated by taking the integer part. This clock period is used as speed-level to switch the processor voltage and frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yung-Cheng Ma, I-Yen Chen, Yen-Tun Peng, Chi-Lung Wang
  • Patent number: 8275822
    Abstract: Multiplication engines and multiplication methods are provided. A multiplication engine for a digital processor includes a first multiplier to generate unequally weighted partial products from input operands in a first multiplier mode; a second multiplier to generate equally weighted partial products from input operands in a second multiplier mode; a multiplexer to select the unequally weighted partial products in the first multiplier mode and to select the equally weighted partial products in the second multiplier mode; and a carry save adder array configured to combine the selected partial products in the first multiplier mode and in the second multiplier mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas D. Olofsson, Baruch Yanovitch
  • Publication number: 20120239721
    Abstract: An arithmetic device includes an input unit inputting data that are elements of a group; a converting unit is configured, when the input data are in a second representation, to convert the input data into a first representation and to perform arithmetic operation on the converted first representation using an operand in the first representation in which at least one subcomponent is a zero element to convert the converted first representation into first converted data expressed in the first representation, and when the input data are in the first representation, to perform arithmetic operation on the input data using the operand in the first representation in which at least one subcomponent is a zero element to convert the input data into second converted data expressed in the first representation; and an operating unit that performs arithmetic processing on the first or the second converted data using secret information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Taichi ISOGAI, Kenichiro Furuta, Hirofumi Muratani, Kenji Ohkuma, Tomoko Yonemura, Yoshikazu Hanatani, Atsushi Shimbo, Hanae Ikeda, Yuichi Komano
  • Publication number: 20120226731
    Abstract: A method for generating a design of a multiplier is disclosed. The method generally includes steps (A) to (C). Step (A) may generate a first circuit comprising a plurality of polynomial results of a particular multiplier scheme based on a plurality of parameters of the multiplier. The first circuit is generally configured to multiply a plurality of polynomials. Step (B) may generate a second circuit comprising a plurality of polynomial evaluators based on the parameters. The second circuit may be (i) connected to the first circuit and (ii) configured to evaluate a polynomial modulo operation. Step (C) may generate the design of the multiplier in combinational logic by optimizing a depth of a plurality of logic gates through the first circuit and the second circuit. A product of the polynomials generally resides in a finite field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Inventors: Sergey B. Gashkov, Anatoli A. Bolotov, Mikhail I. Grinchuk, Lav D. Ivanovic, Anatoly A. Chasovshikh, Alexei V. Galatenko, Igor V. Kucherenko
  • Publication number: 20120221618
    Abstract: A method and a device protected against hidden channel attacks includes a calculation of the result of the exponentiation of a data m by an exponent d. The method and the device are configured to execute only multiplications of identical large variables, by breaking down any multiplication of different large variables x, y into a combination of multiplications of identical large variables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: INSIDE SECURE
    Inventors: Benoît FEIX, Georges GAGNEROT, Myléne ROUSSELLET, Vincent VERNEUIL, Christophe CLAVIER
  • Publication number: 20120203814
    Abstract: A family of computers is disclosed and claimed that supports simultaneous processes from the single core up to multi-chip Program Execution Systems (PES). The instruction processing of the instructed resources is local, dispensing with the need for large VLIW memories. The cores through the PES have maximum performance for Amdahl-compliant algorithms like matrix inversion, because the multiplications do not stall and the other circuitry keeps up. Cores with log based multiplication generators improve this performance by a factor of two for sine and cosine calculations in single precision floating point and have even greater performance for loge and ex calculations. Apparatus specifying, simulating, and/or layouts of the computer (components) are disclosed. Apparatus the computer and/or its components are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: QSIGMA, INC.
    Inventors: Earle Jennings, George Landers
  • Publication number: 20120197956
    Abstract: A calculating unit for reducing an input number with respect to a modulus, wherein the input number has input number portions of different significances, wherein the input number portions represent the input number with respect to a division number, wherein the modulus has modulus portions of different significances, and wherein the modulus portions represent the modulus with respect to the division number, includes a unit for estimating a result of an integer division of the input number by the modulus using a stored most significant portion of the number, a stored most significant portion of the modulus and the number, and for storing the estimated result in a memory of the calculating unit, and a unit for calculating a reduction result based on a subtraction of a product of the modulus and a value derived from the estimated result from the number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventor: Wieland FISCHER
  • Patent number: 8234326
    Abstract: The present invention provides processing systems, apparatuses, and methods that support both general processing processor (GPP) and digital signal processor (DSP) features, such as vector and single value multiplication. In an embodiment, fractional arithmetic, integer arithmetic, saturation, and single instruction multiple data (SIMD) operations such as vector multiply, multiply accumulate, dot-product accumulate, and multiply-subtract accumulate are supported. In an embodiment, the process core and/or multiplier multiplies vector values or single values by creating partial products for each desired product. These partial products are added to produce intermediate results, which are combined in different ways to support various GPP and DSP operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: MIPS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Chinh N. Tran
  • Patent number: 8229109
    Abstract: Techniques are described to determine N mod M, where N is a number having a width of n-bits, and M is a number having a width of m-bits. The techniques, generally, involve determining N?=Nrt2f mod M+NL and, subsequently, determining N? mod M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: William C. Hasenplaugh, Gunnar Gaubatz, Vinodh Gopal
  • Patent number: 8214419
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for implementing an efficient saturating multiplier associated with addition and subtraction logic. The result of the multiplier is saturated before accumulating. The result of the multiplier can be stored in a result register in unsaturated form. The output of the result register can then be saturated and provided to addition and subtraction logic to allow efficient implementation of a saturating multiplier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Paul Metzgen
  • Publication number: 20120166504
    Abstract: In order to reduce the area and power consumption of MAC units, some aspects of the present disclosure relate to MAC units having a feedback path with an arithmetic element disposed thereon. The arithmetic element is often controlled so as to limit the number of bits needed in the data path, thereby limiting power and area required for the MAC unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Andreas Menkhoff
  • Patent number: 8209370
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for performing multi-value arithmetic operations are disclosed. Multi-value signals can be added, subtracted and multiplied using a first truth table to generate a residue and a second truth table to generate a carry. Additionally, method and apparatus to efficiently perform the function a0b1+a1b0 on multi-value signals are disclosed. Also an efficient method of processing large binary signals is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Ternarylogic LLC
    Inventor: Peter Lablans
  • Patent number: 8209369
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for encryption/decryption and electronic signature in a mobile communication environment. A signal processing apparatus, performing modular multiplication in an electronic device, includes a first logic for outputting a signed multiplicand by selectively performing a one's complementary operation on a multiplicand according to a Booth conversion result of a multiplier in modular multiplication; a second logic for outputting a modulus which is signed in the modular multiplication based on a carry input value Carry-in of a current clock, determined from a carry value cin for correction of a previous clock, and on a sign bit of the multiplicand; and a third logic for receiving the signed multiplicand and the signed modulus, and calculating a result value of the modular multiplication by iteratively performing a full addition operation on a carry value C and a sum value S of the full addition operation, found at the previous clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-Hee Lee, Bum-Jin Im, Mi-Suk Huh
  • Publication number: 20120144161
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for performing carryless multiplication. The apparatus has an opcode dectector and a carryless preformat unit. The opcode dectector is configured to receive a carryless multiplication instruction, and is configured to assert a carryless signal responsive to receipt of the carryless multiplication instruction. The carryless preformat unit is configured to partition the first operand into parts responsive to assertion of the carryless signal, where the parts are configured such that a Booth encoder selects first partial products corresponding to a second operand and is precluded from selection of second partial products corresponding to the second operand, and where the second partial products are results of implicit carry operations. The first partial products are exclusive-ORed together to yield a carryless multiplication result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: VIA Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy A. Elliott
  • Patent number: 8164491
    Abstract: Provided are a coefficient multiplier and digital delta-sigma modulator using the same. The coefficient multiplier has the average of output signals of respective dependent multipliers as an effective coefficient using a coefficient averaging technique without employing an adder that has a complex structure and occupies a large chip area. Accordingly, the coefficient multiplier has a simple hardware constitution and small chip area in comparison with a canonical signed digit (CSD) coefficient multiplier, and the digital delta-sigma modulator employing the coefficient multiplier has a simple structure and small size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Min Hyung Cho, Yi Gyeong Kim, Jong Kee Kwon
  • Publication number: 20120060020
    Abstract: The described embodiments include a processor that executes a vector instruction. The processor starts by receiving a start value and an increment value, and optionally receiving a predicate vector with N elements as inputs. The processor then executes the vector instruction. Executing the vector instruction causes the processor to generate a result vector. When generating the result vector, if the predicate vector is received, for each element in the result vector for which a corresponding element of the predicate vector is active, otherwise, for each element in the result vector, the processor sets the element in the result vector equal to the start value plus a product of the increment value multiplied by a specified number of elements to the left of the element in the result vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffry E. Gonion, Keith E. Diefendorff
  • Publication number: 20120030267
    Abstract: A system for processing sample sequences, that may include an input, a sequence of coupled registers, including an accumulator register, and first circuitry that may be coupled to the accumulator register and to the input. The input may be configured to receive a first number of sample sequences having two or more samples. To process the first number of sample sequences, the first circuitry may be configured to generate a current effective sample corresponding to the sample for each sample in each sample sequence, write the current effective sample to the accumulator register, and shift the contents of each register into a successive register in the sequence of registers. After processing, each register of at least a subset of the sequence of registers may hold a respective final effective sample that may correspond to a different position in a processed sample sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Hector Rubio, Garritt W. Foote
  • Patent number: 8082287
    Abstract: A pre-saturating multiplier inspects the operands to a multiply operation prior to performing any multiplication. If the operands will cause an overflow requiring saturation, the multiplier outputs the saturated value without multiplying the original operands. In one embodiment, parameters derived from the operands are altered such that when the multiply operation is performed on the altered parameters, the multiplier produces the saturated result. This may comprise altering a Booth recoded bit group to select a negative zero instead of a zero as a partial product, and suppressing the addition of the value one to the partial products (thus effectively subtracting the value one). In another embodiment, when the operands that will cause an overflow are detected, the output of the multiplier is forced to a predetermined saturation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kenneth Alan Dockser, Bonnie Collett Sexton
  • Publication number: 20110289131
    Abstract: Techniques are generally described that include methods, devices, systems and/or apparatus for dividing a numerator by a denominator. Some example methods may include selecting a first numerical factor stored in an electronic storage media. The first numerical factor may be multiplied by a numerator at least in part using a first logic circuit configured to perform multiplication. The first numerical factor may also be multiplied by a denominator. A second numerical factor may be calculated based, at least in part, on an approximation of a square of the difference between unity and the product of the first numerical factor and the denominator. The second numerical factor may be multiplied by the product of the numerator and the first numerical factor at least in part using the first logic circuit, to generate an approximation of a quotient of the numerator and the denominator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Earl E. Swartzlander, JR., Inwook Kong
  • Patent number: 8058899
    Abstract: A logic cell array having a number of logic cells and a segmented bus system for logic cell communication, the bus system including different segment lines having shorter and longer segments for connecting two points in order to be able to minimize the number of bus elements traversed between separate communication start and end points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventors: Martin Vorbach, Frank May, Dirk Reichardt, Frank Lier, Gerd Ehlers, Armin Nückel, Volker Baumgarte, Prashant Rao, Jens Oertel
  • Patent number: 8046401
    Abstract: A multiplier is able to multiply an input data value by a selected constant value in CSD form. The selected constant value has a plurality of pairs of bits, and the multiplier includes multiplexers, each controlled by a respective pair of bits of the selected constant value. Each of the multiplexers has a plurality of inputs, and is connected to receive the input data value, the inverse of the input data value, and all zeros on said inputs, and it is controlled such that it outputs either the input data value, the inverse of the input data value, or all zeros, depending on the values of the respective pair of bits of the selected constant value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Tianyan Pu, Lei Bi
  • Publication number: 20110231468
    Abstract: The high-radix multiplier-divider provides a system and method utilizing an SRT digit recurrence algorithm that provides for simultaneous multiplication and division using a single recurrence relation. When A, B, D and Q are fractions (e.g., Q=0·q?1 q?2 . . . q?n), then the algorithm provides for computing S = AB D to yield a w-bit quotient Q and w-bit remainder R by: (1) determining the next quotient digit q?j using a quotient digit selection function; (2) generating the product q?jD; and (3) performing the triple addition of rRj?1, (?q?jD) and b - ( j - 1 ) ? ( A r ) where R0=b?1Ar?1. The recurrence relation may be implemented with carry-save adders for computation using bitwise logical operators (AND, OR, XOR).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
    Inventors: ALAAELDIN AMIN, MUHAMMAD WALEED SHINWARI
  • Patent number: RE44190
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus including a multiplier unit forming a product from L bits of each two data buses of N bits each N is greater than L. The multiplier forms a N bit output having a first portion which is the L most significant bits of the of product and a second portion which is M other bits not including the L least significant bits of the product, where N is the sum of M and L. In the preferred embodiment the M other bits are derived from other bits of the two input data busses, such as the M other bits of the first input data bus. An arithmetic logic unit performs parallel operations (addition, subtraction, Boolean functions) controlled by the same instructions. This arithmetic logic unit is divisible into a selected number of sections for performing identical operations on independent sections of its inputs. The multiplier unit may form dual products from separate parts of the input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Karl M. Guttag, Christopher Read, Keith Balmer