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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
May. 28, 2020
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Paul Nicholas Whatmough, Cambridge, MA (US);
Zhi-Gang Liu, Westford, MA (US);
Matthew Mattina, Boylston, MA (US);
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
The present disclosure advantageously provides a pipelined accumulator that includes a data selector configured to receive a sequence of operands to be summed, an input register coupled to the data selector, an output register, coupled to the data selector, configured to store a sequence of partial sums and output a final sum, and a multi-stage add module coupled to the input register and the output register. The multi-stage add module is configured to store a sequence of partial sums and a final sum in a redundant format, and perform back-to-back accumulation into the output register.