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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1995
Shao Wei Pan, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Shay-Ping Thomas Wang, Long Grove, IL (US);
Scott Edward Lloyd, Hoffman Estates, IL (US);
Nicholas Mikulas Labun, Chicago, IL (US);
David Alan Hayner, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A computer processor for performing mathematical operations includes a logarithm converter which generates log values on a data bus, a plurality of processing elements connected to the data bus, an inverse-logarithm converter which receives values from the processing elements, an accumulator which sums converted values from the inverse-logarithm converter, and a control unit for configuring the accumulator to perform various summing operations. The computer processor also includes a switch for providing processor outputs as feedback. An instruction, selected from a set of instructions, is decoded by the control unit to configure the computer processor to perform operations on a data stream.