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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Hari Rao, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-bit adder apparatus comprising: a full adder stage configured to receive at least some of a plurality of least significant bits (LSBs) of first data and second data; and a half adder stage configured to receive at least some of a plurality of most significant bits (MSBs) of the first data and the second data; a carry generation stage coupled to the full adder stage and the half adder stage, wherein the carry generation stage includes at least one serial propagate-generate (PG) component; and a post summing stage coupled to the carry generation stage and the half adder stage and configured to generate a partial sum output of the first data and the second data, wherein a number of the at least some of the plurality of LSBs is different from a number of the at least some of the plurality of MSBs.