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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 1991
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1990
Shingo Kojima, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A processor includes an exception detector for receiving floating-point data on which a rounding operation is to be performed. The exception detector detects whether or not an overflow or an underflow exception occurs in floating-point data without using output floating-point data obtained by performing a rounding operation on the input floating-point data. The exception detector includes a flag indicating the type of rounding operation to be performed and an adder which unconditionally performs a rounding operation by raising a mantissa part of input floating-point data. An exponent detector evaluates an exponent part of the input floating-point data to set flags indicative of the exponent. A circuit produces overflow or underflow exception signals based on the flags and an output from the adder.