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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2008
Andreas D. Olofsson, Lexington, MA (US);
Baruch Yanovitch, Ranana, IL;
Andreas D. Olofsson, Lexington, MA (US);
Baruch Yanovitch, Ranana, IL;
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Abstract
Multiplication engines and multiplication methods are provided. A multiplication engine for a digital processor includes a first multiplier to generate unequally weighted partial products from input operands in a first multiplier mode; a second multiplier to generate equally weighted partial products from input operands in a second multiplier mode; a multiplexer to select the unequally weighted partial products in the first multiplier mode and to select the equally weighted partial products in the second multiplier mode; and a carry save adder array configured to combine the selected partial products in the first multiplier mode and in the second multiplier mode.