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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2006
Kwan Yee Martin Lee, Hayward, CA (US);
Martin Langhammer, Salisbury, GB;
Triet M. Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Yi-wen Lin, Pasadena, CA (US);
Kwan Yee Martin Lee, Hayward, CA (US);
Martin Langhammer, Salisbury, GB;
Triet M. Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Yi-Wen Lin, Pasadena, CA (US);
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A specialized processing block for a programmable logic device includes circuitry for performing multiplications and sums thereof, as well as circuitry for performing floating point operations. The floating point circuitry preferably includes rounding and normalization circuitry. To perform mantissa multiplications, the floating point circuitry preferably relies on the aforementioned multipliers of the specialized processing block.