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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1996
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
In processors, notably digital signal processors, it is often necessary to form the sum of products of a concatenation of data word pairs, for example for correlation or convolution operations, in which the one data word of each pair can assume only one of the two values +1 or -1. In accordance with the invention, in that case instead of forming a product in a multiplier, the one data word of each pair is applied to an add/subtract device in order to control the function thereof in respect of addition or subtraction; one input of the add/subtract unit then receives the other data words of the data word pairs, and the other input is connected to the output of the accumulator register. Thus, a complex multiplier device is saved or, should such a device be present anyway, it will not be used so that the power loss of the processor is reduced.