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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2000
Amarjit Singh Bhandal, Northants, GB;
Keith Balmer, Bedford, GB;
David Hoyle, Glendale, AZ (US);
Karl M. Guttag, Dallas, TX (US);
Zahid Hussain, Ascot, GB;
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the invention includes a pair of parallel 16×16 multipliers each with two 32-bit inputs and one 32-bit output. There are options to allow input halfword and byte selection for four independent 8×8 or two independent 16×16 multiplications, real and imaginary parts of comple×multiplication, pairs of partial sums for 32×32 multiplication, and partial sums for 16×32 multiplication. There are options to allow internal hardwired routing of each multiplier unit results to achieve partial-sum shifting as required to support above options. There is a redundant digit arithmetic adder before final outputs to support additions for partial sum accumulation, complex multiplication vector accumulation and general accumulation for FIRs/IIRs—giving MAC unit functionality. There are options controlled using bit fields in a control register passed to the multiplier unit as an operand. There are also options to generate all of the products needed for complex multiplication.