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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 1986
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1982
Glen R Kregness, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Sperry Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An improved masked arithmetic logic unit is disclosed which incorporates at least three principle unique features to optimize implementation in a high speed environment. These features are (1) the inclusion of a mask operand to facilitate mask compares and mask substitute operations without adding logic levels to the arithmetic logic unit; (2) the inclusion of a sum minus one network to speed up system performance by minimizing the delay usually associated with group borrow input to final sum output and (3) the inclusion of a mode control register internal to the arithmetic logic unit to minimize or camouflage the delay always found in the mode switching control of contemporary arithmetic logic units.