[Open-graphics] Synthesizing oga1hq

Timothy Normand Miller theosib at gmail.com
Mon Aug 13 16:12:38 EDT 2007


On 8/13/07, Petter Urkedal <urkedal at nbi.dk> wrote:

> > I forget.  Do we care about signed multiplies?
>
> I did when I wrote the current version.  I'm not the expert of what
> we will need, but the sign logic is cheap anyway, right?

Sorta.  The multiplier blocks themselves can do signed (18-bit)
multiplies.  So we can multiply two signed 16-bit numbers to get a
signed 32-bit number.  But how do you multiply two 32-bit signed to
get a 64-bit signed?  I know it can be done.  I just can't work it out
in my head right now.  :/

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Timothy Normand Miller
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