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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:
Jun. 10, 1986
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steven L George, Endicott, NY (US);
James L Hefner, Endicott, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364754 ; 364738 ; 364757 ;
Abstract
A high speed multiplier unit for multiplying both fixed point and floating point operands is disclosed and claimed. This multiplier unit is a system level functional unit which allows floating point and fixed point operations to be performed directly. In addition to multiplication, the multiplier unit performs exponent calculation, post-normalization, and error detection. The multiplier unit also provides for overlapped loading of operands.