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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2013
Applicant:
Wave Semiconductor, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Samit Chaudhuri, Cupertino, CA (US);
Radoslav Danilak, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Wave Computing, Inc., Campbell, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/53 (2006.01); G06F 7/533 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/5324 (2013.01); G06F 7/5338 (2013.01);
Abstract
An extensible iterative multiplier design is provided. Embodiments provide cascaded 8-bit multipliers for simplifying the performance of multi-byte multiplications. Booth encoding is performed in the lowest order multiplier, with the result of the Booth encoding then provided to higher order multipliers. Additionally, multiply-add operations can be performed by initializing a partial product sum register. Configurable connections between the multipliers facilitate a variety of possible multiplication options, including the possibility of varying the width of the operands.