Electrical computers: arithmetic processing and calculating – Electrical digital calculating computer – Particular function performed
Patent
1997-06-13
2000-01-25
Coulter, Kenneth
Electrical computers: arithmetic processing and calculating
Electrical digital calculating computer
Particular function performed
708670, 708490, G06F 738
Patent
active
060187514
ABSTRACT:
A mechanism in a microprocessor to transform signed data to an unsigned format so that the signed data can be processed by unsigned instructions. In particular, a subtraction of two signed numbers can be transformed into a subtraction of two unsigned numbers.
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Coulter Kenneth
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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