Multi-purpose floating point and integer multiply-add functional unit with multiplication-comparison test addition and exponent pipelines
Patent №
US 7,225,323
Granted
2007-05-29
Filed 2004
Owner
NVIDIA CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
1
hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
10985291
A multipurpose functional unit is configurable to support a number of operations including multiply-add and comparison testing operations, as well as other integer and/or floating-point arithmetic operations, Boolean operations, and format conversion operations.
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Ownership
NVIDIA CORPORATION
assignment · 159880841
Assignors
SIU, MING Y., OBERMAN, STUART F.
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