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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
DeForest Tovey, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
ATI International, SRL, Barbados, KN;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for arithmetic shifting includes processing that begins by receiving a decoded instruction in a cycle of a pipeline process. Also during this cycle of the pipeline process, shift information and a data operand are determined based on the decoded instruction. In a subsequent cycle of the pipeline process, a data output is generated from the data operand based on the shift information using a crossbar shifting function.