Patent ID: 6233596
Filing Date: 2001-05-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An information processing circuit comprising:a control circuit that receives instructions, the instructions including a single sum-of-products operation instruction, that analyzes said instructions, and that controls the execution of said instructions, anda sum-of-products operation circuit that executes a sum-of-products operation under the control of said control circuit, based on said single sum-of-products operation instruction; wherein:said sum-of-products operation circuit executes a sum-of-products operation a number of times, based on said single sum-of-products operation instruction,said number of times that the sum-of-products operation is to be executed is stored in a register accessed by said control circuit; andsaid single sum-of-products operation instruction comprises number-of-executions information specified by the number of times that the sum-of-products operation is to be executed stored in said register.