The IEEE Standard 754-1985 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic [1] was revised [2], and an important addition is the definition of decimal floating-point arithmetic. This is inte...
Marius Cornea, Cristina Anderson, John Harrison, P...
The draft revision of the IEEE Standard for FloatingPoint Arithmetic (IEEE P754) includes a definition for decimal floating-point (FP) in addition to the widely used binary FP s...
The floating point unit of the next generation PowerPC is detailed. It has been tested at over 5 GHz. The design supports an extremely aggressive cycle time of 13 FO4 using a tech...
Son Dao Trong, Martin S. Schmookler, Eric M. Schwa...
The IA-64 architecture defers floating point and integer division to software. To ensure correctness and maximum efficiency, Intel provides a number of recommended algorithms which...