High speed floating-point unit
US4800516A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 31, 1986 |
| Grant date | Jan 24, 1989 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 31, 2006 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2207/3868
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
In a floating point arithmetic unit, high speed computation is achieved by providing logic for determining whether operands of an instruction have a predetermined condition with respect to the instruction and logic responsive thereto for bypassing selective primitive operations when such predetermined condition exists.
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