Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing – Processing control – Arithmetic operation instruction processing
Patent
1998-10-10
2000-11-21
Pan, Daniel
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing
Processing control
Arithmetic operation instruction processing
708495, 708498, 712 42, G06F 1500
Patent
active
061516694
ABSTRACT:
A floating-point unit of a computer includes a floating-point computation it, floating-point registers and a floating-point status register. The floating-point status register may include a main status field and one or more alternate status fields. Each of the status fields contains flag and control information. Different floating-point operations may be associated with different status fields. Subfields of the floating-point status register may be updated dynamically during operation. The control bits of the alternate status fields may include a trap disable bit for deferring interruptions during speculative execution. A widest range exponent control bit in the status fields may be used to prevent interruptions when the exponent of an intermediate result is within the range of the register format but exceeds the range of the memory format. The floating-point data may be stored in big endian or little endian format.
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Colon-Bonet Glenn T.
Doshi Gautam B.
Golliver Roger
Huck Jerome C.
Karp Alan H.
Institute for the Development of Emerging Architectures L.L.C.
Pan Daniel
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