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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8156171 | Digital logic circuit In one aspect, there is provided a digital logic circuit that comprises circuitry for generating a new iteration xn+1 of the reciprocal square root of A from the previous iteration xn by (i) multiplying the previous iteration xn by t... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7921149 | Division and square root arithmetic unit A division and square root arithmetic unit carries out a division operation of a higher radix and a square root extraction operation of a lower radix. A certain bit number (determined on the basis of a radix of an operation) of data selected from upper bits of the o... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7809782 | Method and system for selecting a set of parameters A method for selecting a set of parameters from a parameter space of a contemplated implementation of a pipelined processor for configuring the processor to generate an output word in response to each of a set of input words. The method includes determining a mappin... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7668898 | Calculating circuit and method for computing an -th root and a reciprocal of a number A calculating circuit and a method for generating an output signal representing an output number approximating an N-th root and/or a reciprocal of an input number represented by an input signal are described. The calculating circuit includes a subtractor circuit, an... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7657589 | System and method for generating a fixed point approximation to nonlinear functions A system and method are provided for use in an electronic device configured to process data to perform a method of generating a fixed point approximation of a number x by first locating the most significant bit of a given number, then retrieving predetermined values... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7617268 | Method and apparatus supporting non-additive calculations in graphics accelerators and digital signal processors A method and apparatus receiving number and using instruction to create resulting number approximating one of square root, reciprocal, or reciprocal square root of number. The resulting number as a product of that process. Using resulting number in a graphics accele... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7599980 | Efficient hardware square-root operation One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses the Newton-Raphson technique to compute a square-root. During operation, the system receives a radicand b. Next, the system calculates the square root of b, √{square root over (b)}, by first using... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7574470 | Multimedia data processing method The present invention discloses a multimedia data processing method that uses a multiplication operation unit, an exclusive-or operation unit, a bit right shift operation unit, a bit left shift operation unit and a comparison operation unit to compute a square root ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7464129 | Circuitry for carrying out a square root operation The invention provides circuitry for carrying out a square root operation. The circuitry utilizes iteration circuitry for carrying out a plurality of iterations. The iteration circuitry includes a circuit for calculating a root multiple, the root multiple being a mu... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7379957 | Method and apparatus of demodulating square root for processing digital signals A method of demodulating a square root for processing digital signals is disclosed. The demodulation includes the following steps. First, define |l arg e| to be the larger one between the absolute value of two input values I and Q and define |small| to be the smalle... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7356537 | Providing contextually sensitive tools and help content in computer-generated documents A method and system are provided for creation, implementation, and use of computer-generated “smart” documents to which functionality is attached for providing contextually sensitive tools, controls and help content to users of those documents. Portions of docum... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7346642 | Arithmetic processor utilizing multi-table look up to obtain reciprocal operands Methods for determining the square root, reciprocal square root, or reciprocal of a number performed by a processor of a computer system. The methods produce high precision estimates without using iterative steps. In addition, the methods taught herein utilize compr... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7336732 | Carrier frequency detection for signal acquisition A carrier frequency in a filtered received M-ary phase-shift keyed (MPSK) modulated signal having in-phase and quadrature components is detected by processing the filtered received signal to remove modulation components and thereby generate a test signal at the carr... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7313584 | Increased precision in the computation of a reciprocal square root A method and arrangements for increased precision in the computation of a reciprocal square root is disclosed. In accordance with the present invention, it is possible to achieve fifty three (53) bits of precision in less processing time than previously possible. | 12/25/2007 |
| 7281245 | Mechanism for downloading software components from a remote source for use by a local software application A method and system are provided for downloading software components from a remote source to a software application for providing updates or additions to the application's functionality. All components and files that may be utilized to update or add to functionality... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277908 | Numeric processor, a numeric processing method, and a data processing apparatus or computer program incorporating a numeric processing mechanism Provided are methods, computer programs and data processing apparatus using numeric processing. Firstly, a corrective mechanism enables a method for performing accurate integer divisions to be derived from an approximate division method which does not, of itself, al... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7266578 | Method and hardware for computing reciprocal square root and program for the same A reciprocal square root for a radix of x is calculated when S[j] represents the partial result obtained after j iterations of calculation, W[j], a residual, and P[j], the product of an operand X and the S[j]. Firstly, appropriate values are set to the... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7200631 | Method and apparatus for determining an inverse square root of a given positive-definite hermitian matrix Generally, a method and apparatus are provided for computing a matrix inverse square root of a given positive-definite Hermitian matrix, K. The disclosed technique for computing an inverse square root of a matrix may be implemented, for example, by the noise whitene... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191204 | Computing system using newton-raphson method A dividing circuit and square root extracting circuit using the Newton-Raphson method. The number of places of an initial value of the Newton-Raphson method is decreased, and a part of a multiplier is omitted. Therefore the circuit scale is reduced. A circuit dedica... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7185040 | Apparatus and method for calculation of divisions and square roots Non-restoring radix-2 division and square rooting procedures are provided. The proposed procedures utilize a quotient/root digit set {−1, 0, +1} and a quotient/root prediction table (QRT/RPT). The i'th quotient/root digit is determined with reference to a partial ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7178102 | Representing latent data in an extensible markup language document Methods and systems allow style and other formatting settings to remain latent until one or more particular style or formatting settings is instantiated by a user. Data representing each latent style or formatting object is persisted in a data structure apart from t... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174357 | Circuitry for carrying out division and/or square root operations requiring a plurality of iterations Circuitry for carrying out an arithmetic operation requiring a plurality of iterations, such as division or square root operations, utilizes N sets of iteration circuitry arranged one after the other so that at least one of the sets of iteration circuitry receives a... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167887 | Circuitry for carrying out square root and division operations The invention provides circuitry for carrying out a square root operation and a division operation. The circuitry utilizes common iteration circuitry for carrying out a plurality of iterations and means for identifying if an square root operation or a division opera... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7152088 | SQRT calculator capable of reducing error A SQRT calculator capable of calculation with a minimal error is provided. The integer calculation unit selects a largest integer from a set of integers with a square of each of the integers smaller than an input datum. The transformation unit transforms the selecte... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7139786 | Method and apparatus for efficiently performing a square root operation One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that performs a carry-save square root operation that calculates an approximation of a square root, Q, of a radicand, R. The system calculates Q by iteratively selecting an operation to perform based on highe... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7117238 | Method and system for performing pipelined reciprocal and reciprocal square root operations A pipelined circuit configured to generate a Taylor's series approximation at least one function, preferably at least one of the reciprocal and the reciprocal square root, of an input value. The circuit is preloaded with or configured to generate a predetermined set... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7099911 | Givens rotations computation A Givens rotation computation technique is provided that makes use of polynomial approximations of an expression that contains a square root function. The polynomial approximation uses polynomial coefficients that are specifically adapted to respective ones of a num... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7069374 | Optical disc drive having a control board and driving unit in separate locations An optical disc drive that includes a driving unit including a spindle motor to rotate an optical disc, an optical pickup to access the optical disc, and a connection board connected to a computer. A control board to control the driving unit, is installed at an inte... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064538 | Magnetic sensor digital processing interface for electrical motor application A system and methods for an interface for magnetic sensors to determine a rotational angle has been achieved. This interface can be used for magnetic sensors providing analog signals of the sine and cosine values of the angle to be determined. Analog signals are bei... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7039666 | Circuitry for carrying out at least one of a square root and a division operation The invention provides circuitry for carrying out at least one of a square root operation and a division operation. The circuitry utilizes a carry slave adder and a carry propagate adder part. The carry save adder and the carry propagate adder part are arranged in p... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7031996 | Calculating square root of binary numbers with fixed-point microprocessor A method and system is disclosed for calculating the square root of a number using a fixed-point microprocessor. The method includes employing a binary search to obtain the integer portion of the square root, and calculating a fraction of the square root utilizing t... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7032174 | Automatically adding proper names to a database The correct spelling of resolved email names is automatically stored in a custom dictionary. Thereafter, a spell checker will recognize the name during the spell checking process, because the name is stored in the custom dictionary and the name will not be incorrect... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7016930 | Apparatus and method for performing operations implemented by iterative execution of a recurrence equation The present invention provides an apparatus and method for performing an operation on an operand or operands in order to generate a result, in which the operation is implemented by iterative execution of a recurrence equation. In each iteration, execution of the rec... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6999986 | Calculating circuit and method for computing an -th root and a reciprocal of a number A calculating circuit and a method for generating an output signal representing an output number approximating an N-th root and/or a reciprocal of an input number represented by an input signal are described. The calculating circuit includes a subtractor circuit, an... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999981 | Circuit for computing the absolute value of complex numbers An apparatus (100) for computing the absolute value of a complex number includes separate squaring units (110, 115) for the real and imaginary parts. A square root unit (130) extracts the square root of the sum (120) of these squares, whi... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6963895 | Floating point pipeline method and circuit for fast inverse square root calculations Methods and systems are provided for fast computation of reciprocal square root for floating-point numbers. A piece-wise linear approximation of the result mantissa is computed in two cycles and used as the input to an iteration sequence that converges cubically. Th... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6944641 | Method for determining the square root of a long-bit number using a short-bit processor In a method for determining the square root of a long-bit number using a short-bit processor, the long-bit number is assumed to be c×22K+d, where c, d | 09/13/2005 |
| 6941334 | Higher precision divide and square root approximations A floating point unit includes a multiplier, an approximation circuit, and a control circuit coupled to the multiplier and the approximation circuit. The approximation circuit is configured to generate an approximation of a difference of the first result from the mu... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6938062 | Apparatus and method for providing higher radix redundant digit lookup tables for recoding and compressing function values An apparatus and method are disclosed for providing higher radix redundant digit lookup tables for digital lookup table circuits. A compressed direct lookup table unit accesses a redundant digits lookup table that is capable of providing a high order part and a low ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6912559 | System and method for improving the accuracy of reciprocal square root operations performed by a floating-point unit The accuracy of approximating the reciprocal and the reciprocal square root of a number (N) is improved. Approximating the reciprocal of N includes: (a) estimating the reciprocal of N to produce an estimate (Xi); (b) determining a first intermediate resul... | 06/28/2005 |
