| 摘要 |
An apparatus and method for converting the format of the exponent portion of a biased floating point number in a microprocessor is disclosed. The present invention allows a conversion to be performed as the data is being loaded. Decoding circuitry first determines when floating point data is about to be loaded. A constant, which corresponds to the type of conversion to be performed, is then generated from a ROM. The data and constant are added and the result, representing the converted exponent is stored in an exponent resister within one clock period.
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