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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2001
Christopher Michael Abernathy, Austin, TX (US);
Scott Raymond Cottier, Austin, TX (US);
Gilles Gervais, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher Michael Abernathy, Austin, TX (US);
Scott Raymond Cottier, Austin, TX (US);
Gilles Gervais, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for performing a shift operation on an operand. The method and apparatus configures input lines to comprise a first part that includes the bits in order representing various shift amounts in a first direction and a second part that includes bits ordered representing various shift amounts in a second direction. The shift is then performed by selecting the appropriate bits from the input line to create the result.