Patent 7567998 was granted and assigned to Broadcom (company) on July, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Described herein is a method and system for multiplier optimization. A gate count savings that does not introduce additional quantization error can be achieved with this method and system. By increasing the number of digits in a multiplication result, partial products within a multiplication can be truncated. When the multiplication result is used in a subsequent operation, the gates required for the increased number of digits in the multiplication result can be made less than the gates saved within the multiply.