Method of performing unsigned operations with signed instruction

Details Method of performing unsigned operations with signed instruction Method of performing unsigned operations with signed instruction

1997-06-17

2000-02-22

Coulter, Kenneth

Electrical computers: arithmetic processing and calculating

Electrical digital calculating computer

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708670, 708490, G06F 738

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060291842

ABSTRACT:
A method of controlling a microprocessor to transform unsigned data to a signed format so that the unsigned data can be processed by signed instructions. In particular, a subtraction between two unsigned numbers can be transformed into a subtraction between two signed numbers.

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Japanese Abstract No. 362224830; Ushinmei, Oct. 1987.
Japanese Abstract No. 405303498; Nakamura et al., Nov. 1993.

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