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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joel F Boney, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364748 ; 3401462 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for generating floating point condition codes by using the data type of a result operand, rather than a magnitude relationship between two operands. The condition codes may then be combined to generate relations useful for identifying conditions for conditional branches or traps.