Devices and methods with programmable logic and digital signal processing regions
First Claim
1. A programmable logic device comprising a multiplier circuit operative to multiply two inputs to the multiplier circuit, wherein at least one of the two inputs to the multiplier circuit is programmable, both when said programmable logic device is configured and during operation of said programmable logic device, between being signed and being unsigned.
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Abstract
A programmable logic integrated circuit device (“PLD”) includes programmable logic and a dedicated (i.e., at least partly hard-wired) digital signal processing region for performing or at least helping to perform digital signal processing tasks that are unduly inefficient to implement in the more general-purpose programmable logic and/or that, if implemented in the programmable logic, would operate unacceptably or at least undesirably slowly. The digital signal processing region may include multiple digital signal processing stages. The digital signal processing region may include a multiplier stage and one or more stages that can operate in combination with the multiplier stage. The digital signal processing region has a plurality of modes such as for providing multiply-and-accumulate operation, multiply-and-add operation, etc.
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- 1. A programmable logic device comprising a multiplier circuit operative to multiply two inputs to the multiplier circuit, wherein at least one of the two inputs to the multiplier circuit is programmable, both when said programmable logic device is configured and during operation of said programmable logic device, between being signed and being unsigned.
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4. A programmable logic device comprising a multiplier circuit that is programmable, both when said programmable logic device is configured and during operation of said programmable logic device, between performing signed multiplication and performing unsigned multiplication.
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