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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2021
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Martin Langhammer, Alderbury, GB;
Bogdan Mihai Pasca, Toulouse, FR;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Folded integer multiplier (FIM) circuitry includes a multiplier configurable to perform multiplication and a first addition/subtraction unit and a second addition/subtraction unit both configurable to perform addition and subtraction. The FIM circuitry is configurable to determine each product of a plurality of products for a plurality of pairs of input values having a first number of bits by performing, using the first and second addition/subtraction units, a plurality of operations involving addition or subtraction, and performing, using the multiplier, a plurality of multiplication operations involving values having fewer bits than the first number of bits. The plurality of multiplication operations includes a first number of multiplication operations, and the multiplier is configurable to begin performing all multiplication operations of the plurality of multiplication operations within a first number of clock cycles equal to the first number of multiplication operations.