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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2005
Applicants:
Chhavi Kishore, Bangalore, IN;
Vivek Bhargava, Bangalore, IN;
Charles Monahan, Mtn View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Described herein is a method and system for multiplier optimization. A gate count savings that does not introduce additional quantization error can be achieved with this method and system. By increasing the number of digits in a multiplication result, partial products within a multiplication can be truncated. When the multiplication result is used in a subsequent operation, the gates required for the increased number of digits in the multiplication result can be made less than the gates saved within the multiply.