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Patent
CA 1287922
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A SHIFT OPERATION IN A MULTIPLIER ARRAY CIRCUIT ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE In floating point opertaions, it is necessary to align the fractions of the exponents before addition or subtraction operations can be executed. This fraction alignment is performed by a shifting operation, typically using dedicated apparatus such as a barrel shifter. While the dedicated apparatus provides high performance in the execution of the shifting operation, this performance is accomplished by reserving a portion of the substrate area to apparatus implementation. To avoid the use of dedicated apparatus, the shifting operation is performed in a multiplier unit, according to the present invention, by entering the number to be shifted in the multiplicand register of the multiplier unit while entering appropriate control signals in the multiplier register. In this manner, a shifting operation can be performed without dedicated apparatus and with minor impact on performance.
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Mclellan Edward J.
Wolrich Gilbert M.
Yodlowski Robert A.j.
Digital Equipment Corporation
Smart & Biggar
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