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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2011

Filed:

Jun. 08, 2007
Applicant:

Honkai Tam, Redwood City, CA (US);

Inventor:

Honkai Tam, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In one embodiment, a state determiner comprises a plurality of logic circuits and a second logic circuit. Each logic circuit corresponds to a respective bit position of a result of an adder. A first logic circuit corresponds to a least significant bit of the result and is coupled to receive a least significant bit of each operand of the adder and a carry-in input to the adder. Each remaining logic circuit is coupled to receive a bit from the respective bit position of each operand and a less significant bit adjacent to the bit of each operand. Each logic circuit generates an output signal indicative of whether or not a specific result occurs in the respective bit position of the result. Coupled to receive the output signals second logic circuit is configured to generate a sum signal indicative, when asserted, that the specific result occurs.


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