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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2006
Applicants:
Stephen Clark Purcell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott Kimura, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Wood-patrick, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Stephen Clark Purcell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott Kimura, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Wood-Patrick, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pasternak Solutions, LLC, Los Altos, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/42 (2006.01); G06F 7/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for accumulating arbitrary length strings of input values, such as floating point values, in a layered tree structure such that the order of adds at each layer is maintained. The accumulating utilizes a shared adder, and includes means for directing initial inputs and intermediate result values.