US Patent Issued to Arm on July 21 for "Combined divide/square root processing circuitry and method" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,012, issued on July 21, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Combined divide/square root processing circuitry and method" was invented by Javier Diaz Bruguera (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises combined divide/square root processing circuitry to perform, in response to a divide instruction, a given radix-64 iteration of a radix-64 divide operation, and in response to a square root instruction, a given radix-64 iteration of a radix-64 square root operation; in which: the combined divide/square root processing circuitry comprises shared circuitry to generate at least one out...