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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2010
Applicants:
Brent R. Boswell, Aloha, OR (US);
Thierry Pons, Hadera, IL;
Tom Aviram, Tel Aviv, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/44 (2006.01); G06F 7/52 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3287 (2013.01); G06F 7/52 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus relating to reducing power consumption in multi-precision floating point multipliers are described. In an embodiment, certain portions of a multiplier are disabled in response to two or more multiplication operations with the same data size and data type occurring back-to-back. Other embodiments are also claimed and described.