Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mixed precision fused multiply-add operator
- Patent Title (中): 混合精密融合乘法运算符
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Application No.: US14113636Application Date: 2012-04-19
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Publication No.: US09367287B2Publication Date: 2016-06-14
- Inventor: Florent Dupont De Dinechin , Nicolas Brunie , Benoit Dupont De Dinechin
- Applicant: Florent Dupont De Dinechin , Nicolas Brunie , Benoit Dupont De Dinechin
- Applicant Address: FR Orsay
- Assignee: KALRAY
- Current Assignee: KALRAY
- Current Assignee Address: FR Orsay
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: FR1153649 20110428
- International Application: PCT/FR2012/050854 WO 20120419
- International Announcement: WO2012/175828 WO 20121227
- Main IPC: G06F7/38
- IPC: G06F7/38 ; G06F7/487 ; G06F7/483 ; G06F7/544

Abstract:
A circuit for calculating the fused sum of an addend and product of two multiplication operands, the addend and multiplication operands being binary floating-point numbers represented in a standardized format as a mantissa and an exponent is provided. The multiplication operands are in a lower precision format than the addend, with q>2p, where p and q are the mantissa size of the multiplication operand and addend precision formats. The circuit includes a p-bit multiplier receiving the mantissas of the multiplication operands; a shift circuit aligning the mantissa of the addend with the product output by the multiplier based on the exponent values of the addend and multiplication operands; and an adder processing q-bit mantissas, receiving the aligned mantissa of the addend and the product, the input lines of the adder corresponding to the product being completed to the right by lines at 0 to form a q-bit mantissa.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140089371A1 MIXED PRECISION FUSED MULTIPLY-ADD OPERATOR Public/Granted day:2014-03-27
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