US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Oct. 28 for "MAC processing pipeline having activation circuitry, and methods of operating same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,723, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"MAC processing pipeline having activation circuitry, and methods of operating same" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and 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 multiplier-accumulator circuits connected in series to form a linear pipeline to process first data, via performing a plurality of concatenated multiply and accumulate operations, and generate MAC output data, wherein each multiplier-accumulator circuit of the plurality of multiplier-accumulator cir...