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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Aaron M Tsirkel, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
371 36 ; 39518209 ; 395551 ; 395800 ;
Abstract
A circuit for executing a logical majority operation in a computing system. The logical majority operation operates on multiple operands to determine the majority value of the operands. The circuit of the present invention includes circuitry for receiving multiple operands, logic for executing a logical majority operation in one clock cycle and circuitry for outputting a result of the logical majority operation.