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Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003

Filed:

Oct. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jean-Pierre Giacalone, Vence, FR;

Francois Theodorou, Cagnes-sur-Mer, FR;

Alain Boyadjian, Vallauris, FR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 ;
Abstract

A multiply-accumulate (MAC) unit, having a first binary operand X, a second binary operand Y, a third binary operand, Booth recode logic for generating a plurality of partial products from said first and second operands, a Wallace tree adder for reducing the partial products and for selectively arithmetically combining the reduced partial products with said third operand, a final adder for generating a final sum, and a saturation circuitry for selectively rounding or saturating said final sum is provided. A dual MAC unit is also provided.


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