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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2024
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Diego Andres Guerra, Austin, TX (US);
Eric Wayne Mahurin, Austin, TX (US);
Butchi Venkata Chaitanya Akondi, Austin, TX (US);
Albert Danysh, Austin, TX (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for hardware-based floating point exponent extraction. Aspects include invoking an instruction in an instruction set architecture (ISA) associated with the one or more processors in order to extract an exponent from a floating point value. Aspects include, in response to the invoking, executing machine code of the instruction using the one or more processors to compute a floor of a base two logarithm of the floating point value to determine the exponent. Aspects include performing one or more actions using the exponent.