Fast determination of floating point sticky bit from input opera

Details Fast determination of floating point sticky bit from input opera Fast determination of floating point sticky bit from input opera

1997-04-04

1998-04-21

Mai, Tan V.

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36474803, G06F 738

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057425370

ABSTRACT:
A pipelined floating point processor including an add pipe for performing floating point additions is described. The add pipe includes a circuit to predict a normalization shift amount from examination of input operands, a circuit to determine the "Sticky bit" from the input operands, and a rounding adder which adds a pair of operands and rounds the result in a single pipeline stage operation. The rounding adder incorporates effects due to rounding in select logic for a series of carry select adders. The adder also aligns the datapath to permit economical storage and retrieval of floating point and integer operands for floating point or conversions operations. The floating point processor also includes in the adder pipeline a divider circuit include a quotient register having overflow quotient bit positions to detect the end of a division operation.

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