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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2023
Commissariat À L'energie Atomique ET Aux Energies Alternatives, Paris, FR;
Riccardo Alidori, Grenoble, FR;
Andrea Bocco, Grenoble, FR;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a floating-point computation circuit comprising: an internal memory () storing one or more floating-point values in a first format; status registers () defining a plurality of floating-point number format types associated with corresponding identifiers, each format type indicating at least a maximum size (BIS, MBB); and a load and store unit () for loading floating-point values from and storing floating-point values to an external memory (), the load and store unit () being configured: to receive, in relation with a first store operation, a first floating-point value from the internal memory () and a first of said identifiers; and to convert the first floating-point value from the first format to a first external memory format having a maximum size (BIS, MBB) defined by the floating-point number format type designated by the first identifier.