The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2017
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/487 (2006.01); G06F 7/485 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/4876 (2013.01); G06F 7/485 (2013.01);
Abstract
A processor includes an integer multiplier configured to execute an integer multiply instruction to multiply significand bits of at least one floating point operand of a floating point multiply operation. The processor also includes a floating point multiplier configured to execute a special purpose floating point multiply accumulate instruction with respect to an intermediate result of the floating point multiply operation and the at least one floating point operand to generate a final floating point multiplication result.