Method and system to implement an improved floating point...

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2005-05-27

2009-06-23

Malzahn, David H (Department: 2193)

Electrical computers: arithmetic processing and calculating

Electrical digital calculating computer

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07552165

ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods to implement an improved floating point adder are presented. The adder integrates adding and rounding. According to an exemplary method, of adding two floating point numbers together, a first mantissa, a second mantissa, and an input bit are added together to produce a third mantissa. The third mantissa is normalized to produce a final mantissa. The third mantissa and the final mantissa are correctly rounded as a result of the act of adding, so that the final mantissa does not require processing by a follow on rounding stage.

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