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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael P Taborn, Austin, TX (US);
John K Yuan, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364745 ; 36471504 ; 364748 ;
Abstract
An underflow/overflow detector includes first circuitry that decodes an exponent into an exponent shift value and compares the exponent shift value with a normalize shift value to determine whether an underflow or overflow error will occur. The underflow overflow detector further includes second circuitry that compares the exponent to a maximum and minimum exponent value to determine whether an underflow or overflow error will occur.