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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2019
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Thomas Rose, Watford, GB;
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Abstract
A method of selecting, in hardware logic, an ilargest or a psmallest number from a set of n m-bit numbers is described. The method is performed iteratively and in the riteration, the method comprises: summing an (m−r)bit from each of the m-bit numbers to generate a summation result and comparing the summation result to a threshold value. Depending upon the outcome of the comparison, the rbit of the selected number is determined and output and additionally the (m−r−1)bit of each of the m-bit numbers is selectively updated based on the outcome of the comparison and the value of the (m−r)bit in the m-bit number. In a first iteration, a most significant bit from each of the m-bit numbers is summed and each subsequent iteration sums bits occupying successive bit positions in their respective numbers.