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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2014
Applicant:
Imagination Technologies, Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Inventor:
Leonard Rarick, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 (2006.01); G06F 7/552 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/5525 (2013.01); G06F 2207/5355 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and computer system are provided for implementing a square root operation using an iterative converging approximation technique. The method includes fewer computations than conventional methods, and only includes computations which are simple to implement in hardware on a computer system, such as multiplication, addition, subtraction and shifting. Therefore, the methods described herein are adapted specifically for being performed on a computer system, e.g. in hardware, and allow the computer system to perform a square root operation with low latency and with low power consumption.