US Patent Issued to Altera on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for structured mixed-precision in a specialized processing block" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,464, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for structured mixed-precision in a specialized processing block" was invented by Martin Langhammer (Alderbury, Great Britain), Michael Wu (Belmont, Calif.) and Nihat Engin Tunali (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to a digital signal processing (DSP) block that includes multiple weight registers configurable to receive and store a first plurality of values having multiple precisions, and multiple multipliers that are each configurable to receive a respective value of the first plurality of values. T...