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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1994
Roger L Miller, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas P Harper, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
National Semiconductor Corp., Santa Clara County, CA (US);
Abstract
Digital circuits determine multiplicative inverses using look-up tables which, in response to an address signal, provide a signal indicating a multiplicative inverse. The look-up tables store values indicating inverses for numbers between 1 and 2. The circuit factors a value to be inverted as product a power of two and a factor between 1 and 2. An address signal indicating the factor is applied to the look-up table, and the look-up table provides a signal which indicates the inverse of the factor. The signal provided by the look-up table is then converted to the proper scale for the exponent N. Factoring and conversion may be accomplished with logical shifts so that no multiplier is required. The look-up table may be compressed by not storing bits of inverses, which are constant or only change once within the range of the look-up table and by only storing look-up values for every other number within the range of the look-up table. A code bit in each look-up table value permits generation of correct inverses for values not stored.