Shrinking feature sizes gives more headroom for designers to extend the functionality of microprocessors. The IEEE 754R working group has revised the IEEE 754-1985 Standard for Bi...
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...
Decimal multiplication is important in many commercial applications including financial analysis, banking, tax calculation, currency conversion, insurance, and accounting. This p...
Mark A. Erle, Michael J. Schulte, Brian J. Hickman...
Because of the growing importance of decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic, specifications for it were recently added to the draft revision of the IEEE 754 Standard (IEEE P754)....
Charles Tsen, Michael J. Schulte, Sonia Gonzalez-N...
In this paper, we study and model a crash-recovery target and its failure detector’s probabilistic behavior. We extend Quality of Service (QoS) metrics to measure the recovery d...