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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Choon-Ping Chng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tzungren Allan Tzeng, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/38 ;
Abstract
A fused instruction datapath is disclosed. The fused instruction datapath may include a normalization unit, a floating point mutltiplier coupled to the normalization unit, and a mantissa alignment unit coupled to provide an aligned mantissa to the floating point multiplier. The floating point multiplier may include a term generation unit and a compensation unit coupled to the term generation unit. The term generation unit may be configured to generate a sum term and a carry term. The compensation unit may be configured to compensate the sum term.