Reloadable floating point unit
US6115730A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 17, 1997 |
| Grant date | Sep 5, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 17, 2017 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/3885
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A preloadable floating point unit includes first and second preload registers that hold a next operand and a next top of array (TOA) for use with a next FPU instruction held in an instruction queue pending completion of the current FPU instruction.
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