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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
May. 07, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Naigang Wang, Ossining, NY (US);
Kailash Gopalakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Jungwook Choi, Elmsford, NY (US);
Silvia M. Mueller, Altdorf, DE;
Ankur Agrawal, White Plains, NY (US);
Daniel Brand, Millwood, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A specialized circuit is configured for floating point computations using numbers represented by a very low precision format (VLP format). The VLP format includes less than sixteen bits and is apportion into a sign bit, exponent bits (e), and mantissa bits (p). The configured specialized circuit is operated to store an approximation of a numeric value in the VLP format, where the approximation is represented as a function of a multiple of a fraction, where the fraction is an inverse of a number of discrete values that can be represented using only the mantissa bits.