US Patent Issued to Cirrus Logic on Oct. 21 for "Circuitry for performing a multiply-accumulate operation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,030, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Circuitry for performing a multiply-accumulate operation" was invented by John P. Lesso (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and John L. Melanson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to circuitry for performing a multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation. The circuitry comprises a first multiplexer having a plurality of inputs for receiving a plurality of unary-coded input signals representing operands of the MAC operation and an output for outputting a multiplexer output signal representing a result of the MAC operation and a first ve...