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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1993
Craig Heikes, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Robert H Miller, Jr, Loveland, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A rounding means is associated with a carry propagate adder of a floating point processor in order to reduce latency and enhance performance. The rounding mechanism performs a rounding function approximately simultaneously with an addition function performed by the carry propagate adder on fraction inputs FA, FB to ultimately derive a resultant fraction FR, thereby eliminating the need for a conventional post-normalize incrementer. The rounding mechanism has a carry select adder and rounding logic network. The rounding logic network communicates with the carry propagate adder and the carry select adder in order to provide rounding information to the carry select adder. The carry select adder and the rounding logic network jointly provide a rounded output, which is then normalized by the normalizer to thereby derive the resultant fraction.