Floating point unit for calculating A=XY+Z having simultaneous m

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1989-01-13

1990-11-06

Shaw, Dale M.

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G06F 738

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049691180

ABSTRACT:
A single floating point that produces the result A.times.B+C with A, B and C being floating point numbers. The operand C is shifted in parallel with the beginning phases of the multiplication. The result is produced after a single addition and normalization, reducing hardware, delay and rounding errors.

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