摘要:
A square root extraction circuit and a floating-point square root extraction device which simplify a circuit structure and improve an operation speed are provided. Portions for generating square root partial data (q3 to q8) include carry output prediction circuits (3 to 8), respectively. The carry output prediction circuit (i) (i equals any one of 3 to 8) receives condition flags (AHin, ALin), the most significant addition result (SUM), and square root partial data (q(i-1)) from the preceding square root partial data generating portion, and also receives a carry input (Cin) to output condition flags (AHout, ALout) for the next square root partial data generating portion, and square root partial data (q(i)). The condition flags (AHout, ALout) serve as the condition flags (AHin, ALin) for the carry output prediction circuit (i+1), respectively.
摘要:
A square root extraction circuit and a floating-point square root extraction device which simplify a circuit structure and improve an operation speed are provided. Portions for generating square root partial data (q3 to q8) include carry output prediction circuits (3 to 8), respectively. The carry output prediction circuit (i) (i equals any one of 3 to 8) receives condition flags (AHin, ALin), the most significant addition result (SUM), and square root partial data (q(i−1)) from the preceding square root partial data generating portion, and also receives a carry input (Cin) to output condition flags (AHout, ALout) for the next square root partial data generating portion, and square root partial data (q(i)). The condition flags (AHout, ALout) serve as the condition flags (AHin, ALin) for the carry output prediction circuit (i+1), respectively.
摘要:
The geometry processor includes mutually independent first and second external interface ports connected to a host processor, and a rendering processor, respectively, and a geometry calculation core which processes a geometry calculation applied through the first external interface port from the host processor. The geometry calculation core includes a plurality of SIMD type floating point calculating units, a floating point power computing unit, an integer calculating unit, a controller responsive to an instruction from the host processor which controls the plurality of floating point calculating units, the floating point power computing unit and the integer calculating unit to process data from the host processor, and an output controller which outputs the processed data to the rendering processor through the second external interface port.
摘要:
The present invention is directed to a program control unit which enables a program control to achieve an efficient loop processing which does not immediately follow a loop instruction and which contains a start address and end address. In the program control unit, the start address and end address of a loop processing are stored in a register (start) (7) and a register (end) (8), respectively, in synchronization with a clock t1. The stored data "start" of the register (7) and the stored data "end" of the register (8) are inputted to a comparator (12) and a comparator (11), respectively. The comparator (12) compares the output from a delay program counter (18) with the data "start", and sets a flag f start when the comparison result indicates agreement and otherwise resets it. The comparator (11) compares the output from a delay program counter (18) with the data "end", and sets a flag f end when the comparison result indicates agreement and otherwise resets it.
摘要:
An instruction analyzing unit sequentially analyzes instructions of a program which is inputted to a program inputting unit. A NOP instruction analyzing part encodes continuous NOP instructions as one continuous NOP instruction. An instruction code outputting unit outputs the instruction encoded by the instruction analyzing unit as an object code. Therefore, the size of the object code can be reduced.
摘要:
A logarithmic arithmetic unit includes first logarithmic operation part multiplying an exponent part of floating-point data by a prescribed value, a logarithmic table memory outputting a logarithmic value corresponding to bit data expressing a digit higher than a prescribed digit of a fixed-point part of the floating-point data, divisional precision decision part deciding divisional precision on the basis of the exponent part, division part performing division on a dividend obtained by subtracting the bit data from the fixed-point part and a divisor of the bit data and obtaining a result of division of a number of digits set on the basis of the divisional precision, second logarithmic operation part obtaining the logarithmic value of a value obtained by dividing the fixed-point part by the bit data and sum operation part adding outputs from the first and second logarithmic operation parts and the logarithmic table memory to each other.
摘要:
The method of routing configuration accesses applied from the primary port to a plurality of secondary ports includes the steps of: distributing a plurality of configuration accesses received from the primary bus to the plurality of secondary ports in accordance with a predetermined algorithm, such that each of the devices on the secondary ports receives and responds to exactly a single access; and terminating configuration cycles after distributing the plurality of configuration accesses.
摘要:
An output FIFO data transfer control device can comprise a geometric arithmetic core including one integer processing unit or IPU and a plurality of floating-point processing units or FPUs. Each processing unit includes an intermediate buffer or data output buffer for storing a data on an arithmetic result. When an instruction of data transfer from at least one of the plurality of processing units to one output FIFO is issued, a write/read pointer generating unit generates a write pointer identifying a specific location where data on an arithmetic result associated with the instruction is to be stored in the intermediate buffer of at least one of the plurality of processing units. The write/read pointer generating unit also generates a read pointer identifying a specific location where data is to be read out of the intermediate buffer of at least one of the plurality of processing units. A transfer mode setting unit sets a transfer mode identifying which at least one of the plurality of processing units is to transfer data on an arithmetic result, and sequentially furnishes a read enable signal to at least one of the plurality of processing units so as to read out the data from the intermediate buffer of at least one of the plurality of processing units.
摘要:
Three local buses and three composite operation buses are provided in each processing element. An arithmetic logic unit, a multiplier, a bit operator, and an accumulator are connected to respective local buses and the composite operation buses. As a result, each operation unit can transfer data efficiently using a plurality of buses of different functions.
摘要:
A graphic processor includes first and second buses and a plurality of geometric operation units having an output connected to the second bus, and a circuit to allocate a plurality of ordered data blocks formed of data to be operated upon to the plurality of geometric operation units, and an input of at least one of the plurality of geometric operation units is connected to the first bus. The plurality of geometric operation units include all arbitrating circuit to arbitrate the order of output between an output buffer to store a result of processing by the allocated data blocks and another geometric operation unit, and output data resulting from processing onto the second bus in an order corresponding to the sequence of the plurality of data blocks of data to be operated upon.