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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2008
Filed:
May. 26, 2004
Paul R. Thayer, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Sanjay Kumar, Livermore, CA (US);
Paul R. Thayer, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Sanjay Kumar, Livermore, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Circuitry for reducing propagation delays in calculation of a value for use in a floating point multiply-accumulate operation. In the circuitry, a carry-save adder receives values of three input operands from three latches. A carry-lookahead adder receives the outputs from the carry-save adder and implements an XOR operation on a most-significant bit along with its own logic operation to produce the value for the floating point multiply-accumulate operation. Modification of the carry-lookahead adder to perform the XOR operation results in elimination of an entire stage of logic.