US Patent Issued to Avago Technologies International Sales on Oct. 20 for "Hardware accelerator for floating-point operations" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,510, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Hardware accelerator for floating-point operations" was invented by Friederich Mombers (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a memory storing a first lookup table of entries each comprising a starting index value and a number of samples corresponding to a respective segment of a function and a second lookup table of entries each comprising a respective sampled mantissa from the function. An interpolation logic circuit retrieves from the first lookup table a starting index value and a number of samples co...