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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1999
Toshiaki Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a case of performing a multiplication operation with low accuracy, a value of the most significant bit included in the least significant half the bits of a multiplier is replaced with “0”. A Booth decoder divides the multiplier into a plurality of partial bit rows. A plurality of partial product generating circuits, each of which is arranged corresponding to corresponding one of the partial bit rows divided by the Booth decoder, each generates a partial product of a multiplicand and each corresponding one of the partial bit rows. In the case of performing the multiplication operation with low accuracy, the partial product generating circuits generating the partial products corresponding to the partial bit row of the least significant half the bits, generate partial products of each corresponding bit row and the least significant half the bits of the multiplicand, and generate partial products of each corresponding bit row and the most significant half the bits of the multiplicand. The partial products, which are generated by the plurality of partial product generating circuits generate, are added by means of adders which are separately arranged for corresponding to either the most significant half the bits or the least significant half the bits. In the case of performing the multiplication operation with low accuracy, a carry signal which is generated by adding the least significant half the bits of the partial products is not input in the adder being in charge of adding the most significant half the bits.