发明名称 |
Methods and apparatus for performing fast floating point operations |
摘要 |
A format for representing floating point numbers reduces the overhead typically associated with parsing floating point numbers and thereby provides for significantly improved processing speeds, particularly for bit-serial processors. According to an exemplary single-precision embodiment, numbers are represented using a 36-bit data format. Extra bits in the representation according to the invention allow certain conditions, such as overflow/underflow and the zero-ness of a number, to be detected and asserted quickly. Other conditions, such as denormalization are subsumed into normal processing through the extension of an exponent range in the representation.
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申请公布号 |
US5966085(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1999.10.12 |
申请号 |
US19980057040 |
申请日期 |
1998.04.09 |
申请人 |
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION |
发明人 |
VAN DYKE-LEWIS, MICHELE D.;MEEKER, WOODROW |
分类号 |
G06F7/57;H03M7/24;(IPC1-7):H03M7/00;G06F7/38 |
主分类号 |
G06F7/57 |
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