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US 7,467,176 B2Granted
Saturation and rounding in multiply-accumulate blocks
AssigneeAltera Corporation
InventorsLeon Zheng, Martin Langhammer, Steven Perry, Paul Metzgen, Nitin Prasad, William Hwang
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Abstract
Saturation and rounding capabilities are implemented in multiply-accumulate (MAC) blocks to provide rounded and saturated outputs of multipliers and of add-subtract-accumulate circuits implemented using DSP. These features support any suitable format of value representation, including the x.15 format. Circuitry within the multipliers and the add-subtract-accumulate circuits implement the rounding and saturation features of the present invention.
Claims12
A programmable logic resource comprising:
- at least one multiplier implemented using digital signal processing circuitry, the at least one multiplier comprising:
- multiplication circuitry that multiplies inputs to the multiplier,
- shifting circuitry coupled to the multiplication circuitry that shifts bits of an output of the multiplication circuitry,
- adder circuitry coupled to the shifting circuitry that adds an output of the shifting circuitry with a predefined value, and
- zeroing circuitry coupled to the adder circuitry that zeros a predetermined number of least significant bits of an output of the adder circuitry.
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