Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for additive range reduction
- Patent Title (中): 添加剂范围缩小的方法和装置
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Application No.: US13223974Application Date: 2011-09-01
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Publication No.: US09563402B2Publication Date: 2017-02-07
- Inventor: Christopher L. Spencer , Yun-Xiao Zou , Brian L. Sumner
- Applicant: Christopher L. Spencer , Yun-Xiao Zou , Brian L. Sumner
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Current Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F7/548
- IPC: G06F7/548

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for additive range reduction are disclosed. A constant may be pre-stored in a look-up table (LUT), and at least one section of the constant may be retrieved from the LUT for generating a product of an input argument and the constant such that a precision of the product may be controlled in any granularity. For a trigonometric function, 2/π is stored in the LUT, and at least one section of 2/π may be retrieved from the LUT. The argument is multiplied with the retrieved sections of 2/π. The retrieved sections are determined to correctly generate the two least significant bits (LSBs) of an integer portion and a scalable number of most significant bits of the multiplication result. An output of the trigonometric function is generated for the argument with a fractional portion of the multiplication result based on two LSBs of the integer portion of the multiplication result.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130060829A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADDITIVE RANGE REDUCTION Public/Granted day:2013-03-07
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