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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2004
Sang Hoo Dhong, Austin, TX (US);
Christian Jacobi, Boblingen, DE;
Silvia Melitta Mueller, Altdorf, DE;
Hiroo Nishikawa, Shiga, JP;
Hwa-joon OH, Austin, TX (US);
Sang Hoo Dhong, Austin, TX (US);
Christian Jacobi, Boblingen, DE;
Silvia Melitta Mueller, Altdorf, DE;
Hiroo Nishikawa, Shiga, JP;
Hwa-Joon Oh, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides for calculating a shift amount as a function of a plurality of numbers. At least one decoder and the at least one adder are coupled in parallel. A shifter is configured to compute a value in a plurality of shift stages, and wherein a bit group of the shift amount is employable to affect at least one of the plurality of shift stages, thereby decreasing processing time.