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Decimal floating point instructions to perform directly on compressed decimal floating point data

US10365892B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Steven R. Carlough · Poughkeepsie, US
Petra Leber · Ehningen, DE
Silvia M. Mueller · Altdorf, DE
Kerstin Claudia Schelm · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 16, 2017
Grant date	Jul 30, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 31, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2207/4911
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Processing within a computing environment is facilitated. An operand of an instruction is obtained, which includes decimal floating point data encoded in a compressed format. An operation is performed on the operand absent decompressing a source value of a trailing significand of the decimal floating point data in the compressed format.

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