US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on May 27 for "Multiplier-accumulator circuitry, and processing pipeline including same" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,318, issued on May 27, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Multiplier-accumulator circuitry, and processing pipeline including same" was invented by Cheng C. Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit comprising a plurality of MACs, connected to form a pipeline, to perform a plurality of multiply and accumulate operations, wherein each MAC includes: (A) a multiplier, coupled to memory to (i) receive the multiplier weight data, (ii) multiply first data and the multiplier weight data and (iii) output product data, (B) an accumulator, coupled to the multiplier of the MAC, to add sec...