Architecture to implement floating point multiply/accumulate operations
 A multiply/accumulator chip architecture capable of operating at a 20 megahertz system clock rate is designed so as to accept floating point numbers in sign magnitude form, to compute a product of the fractional portions thereof and to convert the fractional result into two's complement form for accumulation with the results of a previous product. This architecture readily permits the computation of vector-type inner product operations in a high speed pipelined fashion. Additionally, leading zero's and leadings one's detection is carried out in a multiply parallel fashion so as to rapidly produce post normalization results from the additive portion of the system. The system is implementable on a single integrated circuit chip in which an array multiplier is present so as to minimize inter-chip delays. The architecture of the present invention provides a high speed floating point multiply and accumulate operation with a short pipeline latency. 
General Electric Company
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Daniel A. Karl J. Chung-Yih
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