[April 29, 2012] Freescale Semiconductor Assigned Patent for Circuit and Method for Generating Fixed Point Vector Dot Product and Matrix Vector Values Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 29 -- Freescale Semiconductor, Austin, Texas, has been assigned a patent (8,165,214) developed by Nickolai J. Iliev, Round Lake, Ill., for a "circuit and method for generating fixed point vector dot product and matrix vector values." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An integrated circuit (102) and method computes fixed point vector dot products (424) and/or matrix vector products using a type of distributed architecture that loads bit planes (add 00-add30) and uses the loaded bit planes to generate a plurality of partial products (416-422) directly, such as without a lookup table, and the plurality of partial products are computed in real time and are not read out of addressable memory. In one example, pixel coefficients and corresponding data are loaded such that, for example, a bit plane is loaded to generate partial product results on a per bit plane basis. The plurality of partial products are then summed (414) or accumulated to produce fixed point vector dot product data (424)." The patent application was filed on May 8, 2007 (11/745,875). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,165,214&OS=8,165,214&RS=8,165,214 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar. AS0429AK0429-731526 (c) 2012 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]