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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1991
Daniel W Hammerstrom, Aloha, OR (US);
Adaptive Solutions, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Abstract
A bit disposal apparatus includes a register (16) which is divided at a truncation point (14) into a left register segment (18) and a right register segment (28), wherein bits to be disposed of are contained in the right register segment. A decision mechanism initially examines the bits in the right register segment (28) and transmits a '1' signal (60) if and only if any of the bits in the right register segment is a '1'. If any of the bits in the right register segment is a '1', a 1 is 'jammed' into the least significant bit location (26a) of a result register (26a). A method of bit disposal includes the steps of setting a truncation point (14) in a register (16), thereby defining left (16) and right (28) register segments (54), loading a binary number into the register (56), examining the bits in the right register segment (58) and transmitting a right register signal which has a '1' value (60) if any of the bits in the right register segment is a '1', and replacing the least significant bit in a result register with a '1' if the right register signal has a '1' value (64).