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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
May. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
David C. Tannenbaum, Austin, TX (US);
Srinivasan Iyer, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/483 (2006.01); G06F 7/523 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/483 (2013.01); G06F 7/523 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for dynamically reducing power consumption of floating-point logic. A disable control signal that is based on a characteristic of a floating-point format input operand is received and a portion of a logic circuit is disabled based on the disable control signal. The logic circuit processes the floating-point format input operand to generate an output.