Marvell Asia Pte., Ltd.

Soumya Gollamudi

Avinash Sodani

Ulf Hanebutte

Chia-Hsin Chen

Nimalan Siva

Rishan Tan

Ankit Anand

Nikita Goyal

A new approach of systems and methods to support automatic generation of multiple platform-dependent instruction sets from a single specification of an integrated circuit (IC). First, a specification compiler accepts as input a first instruction set of a plurality of first instructions in a specification format, wherein the first instruction set defines a design pattern of one or more specifications and/or requirements of the IC and is independent of any implementation or platform of the IC. The design tool then converts the first instruction set into a second instruction set of a plurality of second instructions in an intermediate format. A language compiler then accepts and compiles the second instruction set into a plurality of third instruction sets, wherein each of the plurality of third instruction sets comprises a plurality of third instructions in a specific language for a specific platform targeting a specific implementation or application of the IC.

System and method for generating multiple platform-dependent instruction sets from single hardware specification

A method includes receiving an input data at a FP arithmetic operating unit configured to perform a FP arithmetic operation on the input data. The method further includes determining whether the received input data generates a FP hardware exception responsive to the FP arithmetic operation on the input data, wherein the determining occurs prior to performing the FP arithmetic operation. The method also includes converting a value of the received input data to a modified value responsive to the determining that the received input data generates the FP hardware exception, wherein the converting eliminates generation of the FP hardware exception responsive to the FP arithmetic operation on the input data.

System and method for handling floating point hardware exception

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Soumya Gollamudi