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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
May. 30, 2000
Glenn T Colon-Bonet, Ft Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present transmission system disclosed herein efficiently communicates a plurality of data operands through a common digital device in a successive, self-timed manner. The transmission system is particularly suited for implementation in connection with shifting operations in a floating point (FP) fused multiply adder of a microprocessor. The transmission system includes an encoder that encodes mathematically-related first and second data operands from separate sets of paths having a first encoding scheme onto a common set of logic paths having a second encoding scheme. Further included is a device that processes the data operands successively in time and in a self-timed manner. The processed data operands are communicated to a decoder, which decodes the first and second data operands and communicates the data operands onto separate respective sets of paths having the first encoding scheme.