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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:
Aug. 11, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 20, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Pramod V Argade, Allentown, PA (US);
Assignee:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364760 ; 364745 ;
Abstract
When performing fixed point multiplication with 32 bit operands for example, the product is, in general, represented by a 64 bit number. However, a typical microprocessor may compute the product to only 32 bits. Therefore, the possibility of overflow exists. The present invention provides an indication as to the status of the upper (most significant) 32 bits of the product. This indication may include both 'carry' and 'overflow' flags, which are unsigned and signed overflow, respectively. The inventive technique is implemented in hardware that is used in conjunction with a Booth recoding multiplier.