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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2011
Gopal Erinjippurath, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jared D. Smith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gopal Erinjippurath, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jared D. Smith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method performs computer operations using a first fractional precision and a second fractional precision. A computer program has a source variable, a destination variable, and an operation. The source variable has a first dynamic fractional precision, the destination variable has a second dynamic fractional precision that differs from the first dynamic fractional precision, and the operation is related to the source variable and the destination variable. The source variable is aligned to a format of the destination variable, according to the first dynamic fractional precision and the second dynamic fractional precision. The operation is performed using the destination variable and the source variable. A value is assigned to the destination variable according to the operation. In this manner, a single codebase may be written that operates on various hardware that each have different bit precision capabilities, without requiring additional development and verification effort.