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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:
Jan. 24, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen S Si, Milpitas, CA (US);
H P Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stephen J Rawlinson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364748 ;
Abstract
In a floating point arithmetic unit, high speed computation is achieved by providing logic for determining whether operands of an instruction have a predetermined condition with respect to the instruction and logic responsive thereto for bypassing selective primitive operations when such predetermined condition exists.