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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2000

Filed:

Jun. 19, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Stephen Clark Purcell, Mountain View, CA (US);

Nital Pankajkumar Patwa, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
708628 ;
Abstract

A combination has a booth recoder with at least three input lines; two input lines corresponding to two bits of a multiplier and one input line being an increment select line. In one embodiment, signals representing the two bits of the multiplier are provided on the two input lines corresponding to the two bits. A controller selectively asserts a increment select signal on an increment select line, thereby incrementing the multiplier. Therefore, the present invention has the advantage of incrementing a multiplier while performing booth multiplication without requiring an additional adder for incrementing.


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