US Patent Issued to Next Silicon on Jan. 27 for "Device and method of computing an output value of a mathematical function, and method of designing an integrated circuit for the same" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,248, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Next Silicon Ltd (Givatayim, Israel).

"Device and method of computing an output value of a mathematical function, and method of designing an integrated circuit for the same" was invented by Daniel Khankin (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Aharon Abadi (Petah Tiqwa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) for computing an output value Y1 of a mathematical function, for a given input value X1, defined over an approximation interval I1, may include: (i) a look-up table (LUT) circuit with multiple entries, each corresponding to a segment of I1, (ii) a polynomial computation circuit ...