US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 27 for "FPGA wide barrel-shifters implementation using packed DSP multipliers" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,019, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"FPGA wide barrel-shifters implementation using packed DSP multipliers" was invented by Gil Savir (Haifa, Israel), Tushar Garg (Seattle) and Maya Nurick (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Barrel-shifters may be implemented in field programmable gate array (FPGA) using digital signal processor (DSP) multipliers, rather than consuming lookup table (LUT) resources. This advantageously uses otherwise under-utilized assets, leaving previously heavily-burdened LUT resources available for other uses. Building blocks of 8-bit and 4-bit ...