Dual-multiply-accumulator operation optimized for even and odd multisample calculations
View Patent ↗According to some embodiments, a dual multiply-accumulate operation optimized for even and odd multisample calculations is disclosed.
1. A method of processing a signal, the method comprising:
calculating, in parallel, a first multiplication product of a first coefficient and a first sample, and a second multiplication product of the first coefficient and a second sample,
wherein the first sample is an (n)th sample and the second sample is an (n+2)th sample in a plurality of sequential samples;
accumulating subsequent multiplication products with the first multiplication product into a final product; and
producing a digitally filtered output signal based on the final product.
2. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
full scale negative testing the first sample and the second sample.
3. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
saturating the final product.
4. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the first sample and second sample are odd samples in the plurality of sequential samples.
5. The method as recited in claim 4 , wherein the first coefficient and second coefficient are filter coefficients.
6. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the first sample and second sample are even samples in the plurality of sequential samples.
7. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
calculating, in parallel, a third multiplication product of a second coefficient and a third sample and a fourth multiplication product of the second coefficient and a fourth sample; and
wherein the third sample is an (n+1)th sample and the fourth sample is an (n+3)th sample in the plurality of sequential samples.
8. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
calculating, in parallel a fifth multiplication product of a second coefficient and the first sample, and a sixth multiplication product of the second coefficient and the second sample generating a sixth product, and
accumulating in parallel, the fifth multiplication product with the first multiplication product and the sixth multiplication product with the second multiplication product.
9. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the calculating in parallel comprises executing a multiply accumulate single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) instruction.
10. An article comprising a storage medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions operable to perform dual multiply-accumulate operations by causing a data processing system to:
calculate, in parallel, a first multiplication product of a first coefficient and a first sample, and a second multiplication product of the first coefficient and a second sample,
wherein the first sample is an (n)th sample and the second sample is an (n+2)th sample in the plurality of sequential sample;
calculate, in parallel, a third multiplication product of a second coefficient and a third sample and a fourth multiplication product of the second coefficient and a fourth sample,
wherein the third sample is an (n+1)th sample and the fourth sample is an (n+3)th sample in the plurality of sequential samples; and
produce a digitally filtered output signal based on the first, second, third and fourth multiplication products.
11. The article as recited in claim 10 , wherein the first sample and second sample are odd samples in the plurality of sequential samples.
12. The article as recited in claim 10 , wherein the first sample and second sample are even samples in the plurality of sequential samples.
13. The article as recited in claim 10 , the instructions further operable to:
calculate, in parallel a fifth multiplication product of a second coefficient and the first sample, and a sixth multiplication product of the second coefficient and the second sample;
accumulate, in parallel, the fifth multiplication product with the first multiplication product and the sixth multiplication product with the second multiplication product; and
produce a digitally filtered output signal based on the accumulation of the fifth multiplication product with the first multiplication product and the sixth multiplication product with the second multiplication product.
14. The article as recited in claim 13 , wherein the first coefficient and second coefficient are filter coefficients.
15. The article as recited in claim 10 , wherein to calculate in parallel comprises to execute a multiply accumulate single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) instruction.