Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reconfigurable two's-complement and sign-magnitude converter
- Patent Title (中): 可重构的二进制补码和符号幅度转换器
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Application No.: US12492357Application Date: 2009-06-26
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Publication No.: US08307253B2Publication Date: 2012-11-06
- Inventor: Kiran Gunnam
- Applicant: Kiran Gunnam
- Applicant Address: US CA Milpitas
- Assignee: LSI Corporation
- Current Assignee: LSI Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Milpitas
- Agency: Mendelsohn, Drucker & Associates, P.C.
- Agent Craig M. Brown; Steve Mendelsohn
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a reconfigurable two's-complement-to-sign-magnitude (2TSM) converter has two five-bit non-reconfigurable 2TSM converters and is selectively configurable to operate in a five-bit mode or a ten-bit mode. In five-bit mode, the first and second non-reconfigurable 2TSM converters concurrently convert first and second five-bit messages, respectively, from two's-complement-to-sign-magnitude format. In the ten-bit mode, the first and second non-reconfigurable 2TSM converters concurrently convert first and second halves of a ten-bit message, respectively, from two's-complement-to-sign-magnitude format. The reconfigurable 2TSM converter then generates a ten-bit sign-magnitude message based on the conversions of the two non-reconfigurable 2TSM and a carry-over bit. In another embodiment, a reconfigurable sign-magnitude-to-two's-complement (SMT2) converter comprises the reconfigurable 2TSM described above. The reconfigurable SMT2 is selectively configurable to operate in (i) a five-bit mode to convert two five-bit messages concurrently and (ii) a ten-bit mode to convert one ten-bit message at a time.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100042892A1 RECONFIGURABLE TWO'S-COMPLEMENT AND SIGN-MAGNITUDE CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2010-02-18
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