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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2003
Chhavi Kishore, Bangalore, IN;
Aniruddha Sane, Bangalore, IN;
Chhavi Kishore, Bangalore, IN;
Aniruddha Sane, Bangalore, IN;
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and apparatus for dividing and truncating a dividend by a divisor, wherein the magnitude of the divisor is a positive power of two, e.g., 2, is presented herein. If the divisor is positive, the sign bit of the dividend is concatenated x times and added to the dividend. If the divisor is negative, the dividend is inverted, the sign bit of the inverted dividend is concatenated x times, and added to the inverted dividend. The sign bit of the divisor is also added to the sum and the result is right shifted x times. If the signs of the divisor and the dividend are the same, a zero is shifted into the most significant bit during each right shift. If the signs of the divisor and the dividend are different, the most-significant-bit (sign bit) of the result of addition is shifted into the most significant bit during each right shift.