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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2022
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Michael Klein, Schoenaich, DE;
Petra Leber, Ehningen, DE;
Cedric Lichtenau, Stuttgart, DE;
Stefan Payer, Stuttgart, DE;
Kerstin Claudia Schelm, Stuttgart, DE;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Rounding hexadecimal floating point numbers using binary incrementors, including: incrementing, by a first incrementor, a first subset of bits of an operand comprising a binary hexadecimal floating point operand; incrementing, by a second incrementor, a second subset of bits of the operand; generate an intermediate result based on a carryout of the second incrementor; and generate an incremented result based on a carryout of the first incrementor and one or more of: a first bit of the intermediate result or the carryout of the second incrementor.